Work out your 'food print'
PUBLISHED: 10:42 26 January 2008 | UPDATED: 08:20 28 March 2014
JANUARY 25, 2008: Shoppers now have plenty to think about when they buy food – animal
welfare, pesticides, antibiotics, food miles, carbon emissions, not to
mention price.
American researchers found that a person who followed a low-fat vegetarian diet would need less than half an acre per year to produce their food. A high-fat diet with a lot of meat needed 2.1 acres.
