Meat and climate on your plate
This brief outlines the connection between the food on our plates and climate change as well as the targeted approaches necessary to reducing global meat consumption.
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Find everything you need to start a Meatless Monday program on our resource page, including fact sheets, sample campaigns, social media assets, and inspiring success stories about programs around the world. Our filters can help you refine your search for peer-reviewed research, white papers, and reports.
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Meat, menus, and Meatless Monday
This paper describes Meatless Monday, the rationale for reducing meat consumption, and the available evidence about drivers and influencers of meat consumption.
Patterns of legume purchases and consumption in the United States
This study characterizes the types and amount of legumes that U.S. consumers most commonly purchase by state, region and season.
Retail purchases of red and processed meat by State in the United States
This study analyzed retail purchases of red and processed meat and other protein-rich foods across 31 states in the U.S.
The environmental costs of meat production
This brief underscores the consequences of global agriculture and food animal production for water security, land use, soil fertility, and biodiversity.
The health & wellness connection
This brief highlights the impact of global meat consumption on health and how Meatless Monday can be an impactful solution.
The importance of reducing animal product consumption and wasted food in mitigating catastrophic climate change
This report reviews the scientific literature on the roles of reducing animal product consumption and wasted food in meeting climate change mitigation targets.
Trends in types of protein in US adults: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2010
This study delineate trends in types and amount of protein consumption by US adults by subgroups, including chronic disease status.
