This New Year’s resolution should be ‘eat less meat’, says food expert

Meat and dairy produce far more greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) than arable crops.

People with diets high in meat, especially of the processed variety, are at higher risk of a range of diseases, including heart disease and cancer.

January is inescapably associated with purging and puritanism when people resolve to go on diets.

A meat-free month is not only the wrong way to promote it, it distorts and displaces the message everyone needs to get.

Instead, a dry January won’t undo 11 months of over-drinking, Veganuary will not fix our fundamental over-reliance on calories from animals.

What we need is not a vegan month but a more plant-rich year.