Some people who stop eating meat have reported unpleasant effects when they return to it. Can your body forget how to digest flesh?
If everyone in the UK moved to a low-meat diet, eating less than 50g, or one Cumberland sausage’s worth of meat a day, it would save as much carbon as if eight million cars were parked for good, researchers have calculated. Data from the UK government shows that meat consumption is dropping – between 1980 and 2022, consumption of beef, pork, and lamb fell by 62% – and though the reasons cited vary, and may have more to do with rising costs than an environmental conscientiousness, more and more people are clearly experimenting with saying no to meat. (BBC News)