Veggie is the most low-carbon diet, right? Well, it depends where you live
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
It is often claimed that a vegetarian diet is better for the environment, because grazing animals such as cattle and sheep produce a lot of methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
The areas needed for livestock grazing can also be much larger than those used for crops to produce an equivalent amount of food, so more land is...