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Vegetarian and “Healthy” Diets Could Be More Harmful to the Environment


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Takes a LOT of lettuce to equal the calories in a strip of bacon... so if you eat roughly the same number of calories every day, healthy veggies and fish might be worse for the environment. If you can use vegetarianism to radically reduce your calories per day, it might all even out.

Basically you can find a way to justify either lifestyle. 

More about this:

http://pandawhale.com/post/69472/veggie-diets-arent-great-for-the-planet

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