Your planet needs you
It’s impossible to escape the fact that us humans need to make some big changes right now. And one of the biggest ways you can contribute towards undoing some of the damage we’ve done to the Earth is to switch to a plant-based diet. A recent report by animal welfare charity Viva! (viva.org.uk) describes how the production of meat and dairy food is having a disastrous impact on biodiversity through overgrazing, deforestation, land degradation and desertification – each driven by the expansion of livestock farming and intensive production of animal feed. One in nine people in the world are undernourished yet we feed a third of our global crop production to animals. Growing food for human consumption, without first feeding it to animals, could feed an additional four billion people. Ready to switch yet?