Warning: your festive meal could be more damaging than a long-haul flight | George Monbiot

We miscalculate environmental risk: eating certain meats is about the worst thing you can do to the planetThe figures were so astounding that I refused to believe them. I found them buried in a footnote, and assumed at first that they must have been a misprint. So I checked the source, wrote to the person who first published them, and followed the citations. To my amazement, they appear to stand up.A kilogramme of beef protein reared on a British hill farm can generate the equivalent of 643kg of