Healthy Diet, Healthy Environment

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The most environmentally friendly foods are often the healthiest ones for human consumption, and many foods that are damaging to our bodies are also damaging to the environment.


This should make tons of sense since our bodies have a strong likeness to the environment as we share the same organic compounds and chemical makeup. It is starting to become common knowledge that the livestock industry contributes most of the environmental pollution we see today. The livestock industry generates more greenhouse gas emissions than transportation! And you thought the car was the only enemy. Well, they have nothing on the meat you are probably chowing down on right now.


© Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition

The inverted environmental pyramid shows ecologically-damaging foods at the very top, such as meat and cheese. As you look down the pyramid, you’ll find fish, olive oil, other dairy products, and legumes. At the bottom are the least ecologically-damaging foods such as fruits and vegetables.

The food pyramid, which sits like a regular pyramid, features fruits and vegetables across the bottom, as the healthiest things for us to be eating, followed by grains, dairy, fish, eggs, and meat.

And before you argue that "meat is needed because it is the main source of protein", let me tell you that you are WRONG. More protein can be found in a piece of broccoli than you can ever find in a fork full of meat. You are only consuming the protein the animal ate. So don't be lazy, go straight to the source and eat your own vitamins!


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