Green Lifestyle

If You’re Going to Eat Meat, Do it Right

It’s not entirely unknown that eating meat is less eco-friendly than maintaining a vegetarian or vegan diet, but there are ways that meat-eaters can reduce their carbon footprint without giving up all of their favorite dishes. Here are just a few ways you can do this:

1) Pass on shrimp. Shrimping nets have smaller wholes than many other types of nets, meaning that the bycatch (all other species of sea animals who die in shrimping nets, just to be thrown out later) numbers are far higher than with other nets.

2) Don’t eat smaller fish. Small fish are often younger and therefore less likely to have bred before their capture, contributing to a decline in population and eventual extinction.

3) Cut tuna out. Or at least reduce the tuna in your diet to only include the rod- and line-caught varieties, which are not in danger of extinction due to over-fishing.

4) Cut out cavier. Again, for population decline reasons.

5) Fish products that include a blue check mark in the outline of a fish indicate that they have come from sustainable sources, so choose these over others.

These are just a few of the things you should consider when eating meat. Remember, however, that cutting meat out entirely is both healthy and eco-friendly. If you can’t, follow some of the tips above, but if you can go even further and go vegetarian, you’d be living an even more sustainable lifestyle. Check out GoVeg.come and order a free vegetarian starter kit to see if vegetarianism is for you.