Animal-based foods generally have higher greenhouse gas emission footprints than plant-based foods because they generate direct emissions from manure and digestion, as well as indirect emissions from feed production which requires significant land, water, and fertilizer resources.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Global Nutrition Report
  Health and environmental impacts of diets worldwide

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• Health and environmental impacts of diets worldwide globalnutritionreport.org Global Nutrition Report via serper

Referenced by nodes (7)

• animal-source foods concept
• greenhouse gas emissions concept
• plant-based foods concept
• digestion concept
• fertilizer concept
• land concept
• water concept