No Meat May | 31 Days. No Meat. 4 BIG Reasons

Reducing or eliminating meat and animal products is an action you can take that will help save our shared home.

How? It's simple... less meat and animal products equals

fewer farmed animals

less greenhouse gas emmissions

less deforestation

less species extinction

reduced water use

reduced poisonous effluent

less overfishing

The single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact?

Replacing animal products with plant-based alternatives may be our best strategy for protecting the planet and reversing climate change.

Eating our way to extinction

Reducing methane emissions from all major sources, including animal agriculture, is our best chance to slow climate change over the next 20 years.

Shifting to plant-rich diets, would make a large dent in greenhouse gases.

Less GHG emissions

Reducing methane emissions from all major sources, including animal agriculture, is our best chance to slow climate change over the next 20 years. Shifting to plant-rich diets, would make a large dent in greenhouse gases.

You can immediately reduce your impact on global warming by changing what's on your plate.

Less deforestation

The biggest cause of deforestation is agriculture, with meat, and animal feed used to produce meat, the biggest culprits.

Nearly half of global deforestation is to clear land to grow crops - with soy fed to chickens and pigs the number one driver.

Less species extinction

As consumers we contribute towards the loss of species through what we buy at the supermarket.

Last year, a UN report identified the key drivers of biodiversity loss, including overfishing, climate change and pollution. But the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss remains the destruction of natural habitats - the majority for animal agriculture.

Reduced land use

Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories.

The human edible food that we grow and feed to animals equates to 75% of the calorific requirement of the entire human race.

Reduced water use

What we eat and drink makes up about half of our water footprint. The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of fresh water as compared to a healthy plant-based diet. Eating plant-rich diets could allow the same volume of water to feed two people instead of one, with no loss in overall nutrition.

We must recognise how valuable water is before there isn't enough of it.

Reduced Poisonous Effluent

Farmed animal waste is 130 times more toxic than human waste! With global livestock producing an estimated 13 billion tons of waste every year, the problem of what to do with it is increasing.

Less pandemics

We simply don’t have the land capacity to feed 8 billion people free range meat.

So more than 90% of the meat we consume is produced in industrial scale factory farms, which provide the perfect conditions for the generation of future pandemics.

Stop overfishing

Overfishing is happening all over the world, with modern fishing looking more like warfare, using technology developed for war.

Fish simply cannot reproduce as fast as 7 billion people are eating them.

Eating land animals also greatly diminishes the oceans, with 40% of the fish taken from the sea fed inefficiently to pigs, chickens, cows, domestic cats, and farm-raised fish. ⁠

Greenwashing

There is a LOT of money in meat & dairy, and a lot of it is spent to encourage us to not change our habits. So you will hear and see the greenwashing of meat & dairy everywhere.⁠ ⁠
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Always remember we simply do not have the land capacity to feed 8 Billion people free-range meat from 'regenerative farms'.

'Buying local', 'dismissing dietary change' 'seaweed eating cows' and other 'quick technology fixes' are all part of a multi-pronged PR strategy seeking to legitimise not only the industry’s current activities but also its plans to scale up production — despite clear warnings from climate scientists that this could ruin our efforts to meet climate targets.⁠