Adopting a vegan or plant-based diet would reduce your personal carbon footprint by up to 73%.

Agriculture is responsible for 34% of total global emissions. Of that 34%, beef is 8.5% and animal-based foods is 19.4%.

In the U.S, 35% of the 229 million tons of food available goes either unsold or uneaten totaling an estimated $408 billion worth of food.