{"id":3665,"date":"2025-11-13T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/a-vegan-diet-can-save-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:01:19","slug":"a-vegan-diet-can-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/a-vegan-diet-can-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"A vegan diet can save the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-11-13 12:01:16<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Going vegan could almost halve your environmental impact.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers at the University of Granada in Spain found that switching from a typical Mediterranean diet to a fully plant-based one slashed carbon emissions by 46 per cent, used 33 per cent less land, and required seven per cent less water. <BR><br \/>\nTheir results also showed reductions in several other pollutants linked to global warming.<BR><br \/>\nTo compare the two eating patterns, the team designed week-long meal plans \u2014 each totalling 2,000 calories per day \u2014 based on either a healthy omnivorous Mediterranean diet or a completely plant-based version featuring tofu, tempeh, legumes, soy yoghurt and seeds.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Noelia Rodriguez-Martin, who led the study, said: &#8220;Moving from a Mediterranean to a vegan diet generated 46 per cent less CO2. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It also used significantly fewer natural resources and lowered other pollutants associated with climate change.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nAnimal-based foods have a far higher carbon footprint because livestock produce methane during digestion, while manure and fertiliser release nitrous oxide \u2014 two potent greenhouse gases.<BR><br \/>\nBut the researchers say you don\u2019t need to go fully vegan to make an impact.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Rodriguez-Martin added: &#8220;You don\u2019t need to go fully vegan to make a difference. Even small steps toward a more plant-based diet reduce emissions and save resources. Every meal that includes more plants helps move us toward healthier people and a healthier planet.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-11-13 12:01:16 Going vegan could almost halve your environmental impact. Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain found that switching from a typical Mediterranean diet to a fully plant-based&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}