How to Have a Compassionate Christmas
This Christmas, we can all make a few tweaks to our festive food choices to make them more animal and climate friendly.
With the impacts of climate change already felt in our food system, these simple, science-backed swaps can help ensure we can continue to enjoy traditional feasts in Christmases to come.
Studies show that some of the season’s most popular foods are amongst the worst culprits for driving climate change. But eating less, higher-welfare animal sourced foods, or swapping them entirely for plant-based alternatives, is a better gift for animals and the planet.
Globally, the livestock sector emits more greenhouse gases (GHGs) than the direct emissions of all the world’s planes, trains and cars, combined. Billions of animals suffer cruelty every year in cramped and barren indoor conditions, rarely or never going outside. And factory farms – where most meat is produced – are also a significant source of air, soil and water pollution.