Jesus that’s a massive overlap in environmental impact for everything that isn’t super high meat consumption. You can be a low meat eater and have a smaller impact than some vegans.
The call to action that they’re making in the study and article is flat out stupid. Looking at this data, there is significant better gains going from high meat consumption to lower meat consumption; far higher than going from low meat consumption to vegan. That’s what the takeaway here should be, and it’s what a lot of people are already doing too.
Jesus that’s a massive overlap in environmental impact for everything that isn’t super high meat consumption. You can be a low meat eater and have a smaller impact than some vegans.
The call to action that they’re making in the study and article is flat out stupid. Looking at this data, there is significant better gains going from high meat consumption to lower meat consumption; far higher than going from low meat consumption to vegan. That’s what the takeaway here should be, and it’s what a lot of people are already doing too.
Bear in mind that graph that I copied overlaps more due to it being relative to high-meat diets (hence no error bars on that group).
The supplementary data shows much less overlap of 95% confidence intervals.
Gotcha! Thanks for the clarification.