Why what we eat is (still) a major cause of the climate crisis

It's not only for health reasons that we are being told to eat less red meat. The climate and environment are under massive strain from our meat-heavy diet. There's still a long way to go when it comes to changing our food systems, new research shows. Potsdam, Germany (dpa) – Meat is murder – but not only of animals. Our dependence on environmentally unsustainable foods like red meat is driving a climate crisis that is claiming lives in floods, storms and other natural disasters made more likely by climate change, and the authors of a new study are calling on us to change. Global food production is responsible for around 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a damning new report by the EAT-Lancet Commission, accusing humanity of failing to address a critical issue in the cli