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Sustainability
Plant-based diets are also associated with sustainability and environmental impact mitigation. Studies have demonstrated that adopting a plant-based nutrition would not only help to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, but it would also reduce the amount of land, water and fertilizers currently used for agriculture.

As a significant percentage of crops around the world end up being used to feed livestock instead of the human population, having a plant-based diet would also mitigate the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. For example, even if consumers favoured low-impact cow milk producers over high-impact cow milk producers, plant based options like soymilk still create less environmental impacts. While “soy cultivation is a major driver of deforestation in the Amazon basin”, the vast majority of these crops are not destined for human consumption. In fact, "meat and dairy provide only 18% of our calories and 37% of our protein, yet use up 83% of our farmland."