Switching to a healthier diet can reduce an individual’s water footprint by as much as 55%. Can you beat that?
According to new research, turning vegetarian has the biggest impact, but even cutting down on meat gives a saving of at least 10%.
Shifting to a healthy diet is a “win-win situation”, say researchers.
Citizens will be healthier and their food can be produced using less of one of our most precious natural resources – water.
“The main message is that if you shift to a healthy diet, be it with meat or without (vegetarian or pescetarian), according to your own preference, it’s not only good for your health, but it’s also very good for the environment in the sense that you reduce your water footprint substantially,” said one research.
Can you now see that veganism is not just for you but for the entire planet earth? That’s right.
Facts from a study confirmed the following:
• Switching to a healthy diet with meat would reduce water consumption by 11-35%
• A healthy pescetarian diet (meat is replaced with fish and pulses, animal fat is replaced with oils from crops) reduces water consumption by 33-35%
• A healthy vegetarian diet (no fish or meat, oils from crops in place of animal fat) reduces water consumption by 35-55%.
Here at Tattasetv, we acknowledge that encouraging people to change their diet is not straightforward and requires a number of interventions. But it’s not impossible. We also need to preserve our environment.
Shockingly, many studies have revealed that people tend to eat too much red meat, sugar and fat, but do not eat enough fruit and vegetables. Therefore, we ask, is this really something we should encourage?
Bottomline is that everyone still need more than enough veggies to stay alive and healthy. Vegan or not, we must do better as a continent by incorporating more fruits and veggies in our daily diet as well as any kind of treat we may crave for. It not only saves our lives but this planet which we found ourselves in.
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