According to Wolfe, farmers’ sloppy application of nitrogen fertilizers can be especially detrimental for local ecology, and is a major culprit of greenhouse gas emissions. So, what if the whole world went vegan? “There are places in the world that are somewhat food insecure, [where] they do not have arable land to grow many food crops effectively. But, they can raise animals … So, in some places you need some meat consumption,” Wolfe said. “[However,] if we simply went to a diet that constrained meat consumption to a ‘Mediterranean diet’ — which would be meat consumption once or twice a week, and some fish consumption once or twice, and the rest vegetarian — that too would have a significant impact.

Source: Daily Sun November 14, 2019 01:54 UTC