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 # Vegan Diet Is the Most Sustainable, New Study Suggests

 


 

 Mar 6, 2013 11:00 AM ET

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[ANTONIO PASOLINI ](http://www.justmeans.com/editorialauthor/393.html)

Experts at the [6th Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition](http://www.vegetariannutrition.org/), which took place in California between February 24 and 26, said that in order to meet food demands by 2050, the world will have to switch to a predominantly vegetarian diet. The statement was based on a new study carried out at Loma Linda University (LLU) providing evidence of the benefits of a vegetarian diet using data from 96,000 Seventh Day Adventists in the U.S. and Canada.

The study looked at vegan, ovolacto (who eat eggs and dairy) and pesco-vegetarian (who eat fish as well), semi-vegetarian (who eat meat occasionally) and non-vegetarian diets and concluded that vegans emit less GHG than everyone else, followed by ovolacto and pesco-vegetarians.  
  
Vegans were also found to be healthier and less at risk of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart problems, while meat-eaters were the group with the highest risk. Vegans' emissions were 41.7 percent lower than meat-eaters while ovolactovegetarians were 27.8% lower. Combined, vegans and vegetarians generated 30 percent fewer GHG emissions than meat eaters.

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Antonio Pasolini is a Corporate Social Responsibility writer for Justmeans, Antonio Pasolini is a journalist based in Brazil who writes about alternative energy, green living and sustainability. He also edits [Energyrefuge.com](http://energyrefuge.com/), a top web destination for news and comment on renewable energy and [Elpis.org](http://elpis.org/), a recycled paper bag/magazine distributed from health food stores in London, formerly his hometown for over a decade. He is also a happy herbivore.

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