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Replacing meat and dairy with plants can almost halve your environmental footprint and leave more money in your wallet. That's important when prices are on the rise: food costs grew more than 10 per cent in August, September and October of this year. 

Lobbyists for Canada's meat and dairy industries are showing up with unprecedented visibility at the COP27 climate conference now underway in Egypt. The industries have at least one representative on the official Canadian delegation, a position that gives easy access to negotiators and closed-door meetings.

Climate crisis report says "we are not winning in any sector" as experts call for urgent action on fossil fuels.

Haarlem, which lies to the west of Amsterdam and has a population of about 160,000, will enact the prohibition from 2024 after meat was added to a list of products deemed to contribute to the climate crisis.

Students living on two University of Toronto campuses will have more vegetarian and vegan options to choose from when school starts up again next month, thanks to a two-day, in-person training program from the Humane Society International Canada.

Insects could give a meaty taste to food — and help the environment — scientists find.

Regenerative farming promotes raising crops and livestock together along with other methods to promote soil health.

Proponents say the ‘regenerative farming’ eating challenge encourages consumption of more sustainable animal products — but is it just greenwash?

Invasive gorse plant is widely cleared in Scotland and has been used as animal fodder in the past.

Every day around noon, the smell of grilled beef and roasted venison wafts through the lines of delegates attending the COP26 climate conference as they queue for lunch. Yet even as hundreds flock to the burgers and venison pasties on offer, some attendees wonder if meat — a big emitter worldwide — should be on the menu. 

Young urban shepherd Lukas Janssens guides his flock among the graves in Schoonselhof, one of Belgium’s iconic cemeteries, knowing sheep are kinder to nature than lawnmowers.

We need to change what we eat. Will bashing beef and slamming seafood help? 

I can’t help but think, if Epicurious is taking sustainability and environmental impact seriously, wouldn’t it be a better pledge to exclude the use of cow products altogether? Milk? Cheese? Butter? That's what Joanna Tymkiw thinks.

A new book pushes back against the narrative that individual actions make little difference to the climate.