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By: SYH

Let’s face it. Going completely vegetarian isn’t for everyone. But if you’re looking to align your eating habits with your concern for the environment, you can do a lot of good by cutting back on the amount of meat you consume. Eating meat not only costs more per pound than potatoes, lentils or rice, but raising livestock also consumes more energy, land and water, and produces more pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.If you were to cut meat out of your diet once a week and replace it with a vegetarian option, you could save about $250 per year for a family of four.

If every U.S. household made this shift, we could save the energy equivalent of 13 million gallons of petroleum per year.

Did You Know…?

Each American consumes an average of 64 pounds of beef, 48 pounds of pork and 59 pounds of chicken each year.
Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of global carbon emissions