Student Life October 2019
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MY PLANET<br />
CO-EDITOR RACHEL MITCHELL<br />
VEGANISM<br />
BY LIBBY DAWSON<br />
The exploitation of animals and<br />
maintaining a nutritional diet are not the<br />
only reasons why people follow a plant<br />
based diet. As much as people do not<br />
want to hear it, the best way to reduce<br />
your harmful impact on the planet and<br />
lower your carbon footprint is to avoid<br />
animal products. You can buy an electric<br />
car, walk to work or not put your apples<br />
in a plastic bag, but one of the biggest<br />
things you can do is to stop eating meat<br />
and dairy (but you should still do the<br />
other things too!)<br />
From the crops and water needed to<br />
feed the animals, to the transportation<br />
used, as well as the vast amount of grain<br />
feed required for meat production, these<br />
are all significant factors to deforestation,<br />
habitat loss and species extinction. Meat<br />
and dairy production is also responsible<br />
for 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas<br />
emissions; a massive sector that spans<br />
all the multitude of environmental<br />
problems.<br />
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