Going Vegan
Earlier this week I watched a webinar from Vegoforum, a Swedish group advocating for veganism, at the invitation of the Plant-based Treaty people. Starting at the 9:06 mark, Joseph Poore presents findings from his new book.
Dr. Poore is "Researcher at the Oxford Martin Programme on Food Sustainability Analytics, University of Oxford." His presentation consisted mainly of projecting data on land use for animal products vs. plant-based products onto other data, such as the landmass of continents. It gives you impressive global pictures but I'm not sure it's really a useful approach. Ditto for spinning comparisons on the assumption that some major city would go 100% vegan.
I have of course no way of verifying his starting data nor the accuracy of his "translated" results. But trusting they're right, some insights do appear, such as the contribution of GHGs by animal- versus plant-based food.
Watch the video here:
The link to his slides is below. Slide #40 compares going vegan to other actions that well-meaning persons may consider in their individual fight against climate change. That one floored me.
http://media5.vegoforum.se/Presentation-by-Joseph-Poore-230412.pdf
If his data are right, then going half-way towards being vegan would already make a significant contribution!