Agriculture, Food and Beverage

Eating lots of meat is bad for the environment – but we don’t know enough about how consumption is changing

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How much have our meat consumption habits changed? Image: Unsplash/Kyle Mackie

Kerry Smith
PhD candidate in Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Emma Garnett
Researcher in the Health Behaviours Team, University of Oxford
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Statistic showing the changes in meat intake in the UK according to three datasets.
The levels of meat reduction vary between these datasets. Image: The Conversation

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