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The Savings

Making A Real Difference

See how much you'll be saving and the positive impact you'll be having on the planet by taking the Munch Meat Less Meat Challenges...
 

1) Eating meat as a treat will:

  • Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by 3,300kg
  • Save 462,000 gallons of water 
  • Save 1342 pounds of grain that can be used to feed people instead - that's almost enough to feed 3 people for a year in the developing world
  • Save 42,350 sq feet of rain forest, equivalent to 22 good sized homes
  • Save 85.25 gallons of gasoline from fossil fuels 
  • Save over 2,200 pounds of manure being produced by food animals that leads to nitrate pollution of our countryside and rivers 
  • Save 478.5 square feet of topsoil from erosion Topsoil is required to grow crops and once gone it can take hundreds of years to rebuild just a couple of inches. 


2) Learn to cook two meat free meals and you will:

  • Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by 300kg
  • Save 42,000 gallons of water 
  • Save 122 pounds of grain that can be used to feed people instead - that's about 3 months food for someone in the developing world
  • Save 3,850 sq feet of rain forest - equivalent to two good sized homes
  • Save 7.75 gallons of gasoline from fossil fuels
  • Save over 200 pounds of manure being produced by food animals that leads to nitrate pollution of our countryside and rivers
  • Save 43.5 square feet of topsoil from erosion. Topsoil is required to grow crops and once gone it can take hundreds of years to rebuild just a couple of inches


3)  Pass on a meat free recipe and you will:

  • Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by 209kg
  • Save 29076 gallons of water 
  • Save 84 pounds of grain that can be used to feed people instead 
  • Save 2,665 sq feet of rain forest 
  • Save 5.4 gallons of gasoline from fossil fuels 
  • Save over 138 pounds of manure being produced by food animals that leads to nitrate pollution of our countryside and rivers 
  • Save 30 square feet of topsoil from erosion Topsoil is required to grow crops and once gone it can take hundreds of years to rebuild just a couple of inches.


4) One meat free meal per day will:

  • Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by 2,100kg
  • Save 294,000 gallons of water 
  • Save 854 pounds of grain that can be used to feed people instead - that's about 3 months food for someone in the developing world
  • Save 26,950 sq feet of rain forest - equivalent to two good sized homes
  • Help reduce the number of animals slaughtered for food. On average, each Briton eats 50 animals per year
  • Save 54.25 gallons of gasoline from fossil fuels
  • Save over 1,400 pounds of manure being produced by food animals that leads to nitrate pollution of our countryside and rivers
  • Save 304.5 square feet of topsoil from erosion. Topsoil is required to grow crops and once gone it can take hundreds of years to rebuild just a couple of inches
  • Ocean Life: Reduce your impact on our quickly vanishing ocean life. By 2048 we will see a near collapse of the oceans if we continue at the pace we’re on right now. Unfortunately, farmed fish isn’t the “silver-bullet” answer either. Farmed fish produce high concentrations of waste that lead to environmental and health issues.


5) One meat free day per week for a year will:

  • Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by 600kg – that’s 3/5th of a tonne
  • Save 84,000 gallons of water 
  • Save 245 pounds of grain that can be used to feed people instead - that's about 6 months food for someone in the developing world
  • Save 7,700 sq feet of rain forest - equivalent to four good sized homes
  • Save 15.5 gallons of gasoline from fossil fuels
  • Save over 400 pounds of manure being produced by food animals that leads to nitrate pollution of our countryside and rivers
  • Save 87 square feet of topsoil from erosion Topsoil is required to grow crops and one gone it can take hundreds of years to rebuild just a couple of inches.

If everyone in the UK abstained from eating meat for one day a week, this would save 13 mega tonnes of CO2 emissions. This would result in greater carbon savings than taking 5 million cars off the road in the UK (10.4 mega tonnes of CO2).

 
6) Baby Bite

  • The savings made for this challenge may only be small, but all those small savings add up to make a much bigger one.  The amount you save will be entirely dependant on the types of snacks you’re switching from and how often.

 
7) Hosting a meat free dinner party will:

  • Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by 34.6 kg
  • Save  4,846 gallons of water 
  • Save 14 pounds of grain that can be used to feed people instead 
  • Save 444 sq feet of rain forest 
  • Save 0.9 gallons of gasoline from fossil fuels 
  • Save over 23 pounds of manure being produced by food animals that leads to nitrate pollution of our countryside and rivers 
  • Save 5 square feet of topsoil from erosion Topsoil is required to grow crops and once gone it can take hundreds of years to rebuild just a couple of inches.


8) Asking your local restaurant for two meat free options:

  • The savings here have the potential to be huge.  They will vary greatly depending on the number of customers deciding to choose the meat free meals. But research has clearly shown that if you increase the options on the menu and make the meat free meals interesting then many meat eaters will opt for them. But if all that’s offered is pasta or risotto who can blame a meat eater for choosing something else!? So it may be difficult to measure but rest assured you’ll be making a big difference.

 

9) Having a meat free Christmas diner will:

  • Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by 138kg
  • Save 19,385 gallons of water 
  • Save 56 pounds of grain that can be used to feed people instead
  • Save 1,776 sq feet of rain forest 
  • Save 3.6 gallons of gasoline from fossil fuels
  • Save over 92 pounds of manure being produced by food animals that leads to nitrate pollution of our countryside and rivers 
  • Save 20 square feet of topsoil from erosion. Topsoil is required to grow crops and once its gone it can take hundreds of years to rebuild just a couple of inches

 
10) How quickly can you save £50 munching less meat?

  • See how much you can save and how fast!

 

11) Go Vegetarian:

  • If everyone in Britain ate a meat-free diet seven days a week, we’d save 91 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This is the equivalent of 254 million return flights from London to Ibiza (254,465,400 to be precise!)
  • Saving 91 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions would more than halve the emissions of all greenhouse gasses from the domestic sector (160 Mtons of CO2 in 2004). This would be the same as eliminating all greenhouse gas emissions from 12.5 million households in the UK
  • Personally you'll save around 2 tonnes of CO2 - that's a considerable percentage of your own personal carbon footprint

 
Convinced? Then choose your MUNCH LESS MEAT Challenge(s) ...

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