Posted on 12/10/07
To go green, eat your greens - and meat, too
A new study out of Cornell University (the first to examine land requirements of complete diets, or "foodprints") suggests that although a vegetarian diet in New York uses the least land per person (0.44 acres compared with 2.11 for meat eaters) it's not as efficient in terms of land use as a plant-based diet that also includes a bit of meat and dairy. Conflicting with the Union of Concerned Scientists' recommendation that being a vegetarian is one of the top things you can do for the planet, just where does this new study leave the omnivore?
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