A national flexitarian diet would reduce the amount of U.S. farmland by roughly the size of South Dakota.
ArticleBody:This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A new report finds that the United States could more efficiently produce food if half the country’s protein supply came from plant-based or alternative proteins rather than meat or dairy. The analysis demonstrates how a shift toward a plant-based diet provides ample benefits for the environment and the climate.
Seafood is notably absent from the report, as is protein imported from abroad. Wood points out that these parameters don’t reflect how agricultural inputs can transcend or move across borders. “It’s a little artificial to draw a border around the United States,” said Wood, who is also a senior scientist for agriculture and food systems at The Nature Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit. To illustrate this, Wood pointed out that if the U.S.
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