Linda McCartney's Study Confirms Increasing Human Commitment to Plant-Based Diet

Pike Place Market, Seattle by Thomas Le

Linda McCartney's Study Confirms Increasing Human Commitment to Plant-Based Diet AOC Sustainability

Meat eaters saved £6.7 BILLION last year - by cutting down on meat.

Researchers estimate more than 12 million carnivores ate less pork, beef, lamb and chicken in 2019 compared to previous years - and they saved around £550 each by doing so.

And this year, more than a fifth intend to reduce their intake even further or for the first time – if not eliminate meat from their diet completely.

For 28 per cent, saving money is one of the biggest motivations for doing so – indeed, 51 per cent think meat is too expensive. But health concerns can be in play to a lesser extent, as massive research mounts around the positive correlation between the amount of heme iron in red meat and darker meat from chicken and the onset of diabetes. Those in the highest quartile intake of red meat and poultry among the 63,000 participants had a 23 per cent and 15 per cent increase in risk of diabetes, respectively, while the intake of fish/shellfish was not associated with risk of diabetes.