Eating Fruit and Vegetables is now Non-Green

Just when you thought you’d seen everything by way of crazy news, along comes a US scientific study claiming to show that eating fruit and vegetables is bad for the planet.

Say what (as our US friends might say)?

Well, a group of scientists have apparently done a lot of calculations and have come to the rather strange conclusion that if you look at water consumption, energy use in harvesting, fertiliser making and lots of related activities, it takes more in greenhouse gasses to produce fruit and veg than meat. So, if you want to do your best for the planet then this group of scientists would argue that you should eat far less ‘healthy’ food and much more beef, chicken, pork and so on...Read More