Eatin' good

How changing our diets could save the environment

by JoAnna Wendel
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What we eat — or don’t eat — can affect our environment in big ways.

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For instance, scientists recently found that the food we get from animals takes up 83% of the planet’s agricultural land, which means there’s less natural space like forests.

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