Chicken run! Burger King introduces ‘UK’s first’ plant-based nuggets

The offering is expected to support the fast food chain’s goal to have half of its menu meat-free by 2030

Eat smaller steaks to protect planet!

Sarah Bridle, Physics Professor at the University of Manchester, talked to ELN about how the size of our meals can have a big difference on carbon dioxide emissions

Vegan children shorter than meat-eating kids?

Study shows vegan tots are shorter than those that eat meat

Do takeaways create tasteless emissions?

Households that spend around £50 a week on takeaway, have a 450% higher annual carbon footprint than those who don’t, study finds

‘Meat-eaters contribute nearly twice as much to climate change than vegans’

New research finds that if everyone in the UK switched to vegetarianism for a year, they could save the UK 37,900,000 tonnes of emissions

University of Oxford: ‘We must change what we eat to solve the climate crisis’

Researchers warn that even if global fossil fuel emissions were stopped with immediate effect, emissions derived from global food systems alone could push global temperature increases above 1.5°C

Princess Anne speaks out against Prince Charles’s views on climate change

She cast doubt on her brother’s green views, who has previously expressed concerns over issues such as the Australian wildfires and the environmental impacts of animal agriculture

McDonald’s unveils its own plant-based burger

The meat-free ‘Plant, Lettuce, Tomato’ is now being trialled at 29 restaurants across Ontario, Canada

University of Cambridge slashes emissions with dietary switch-up

The university said its implementation of measures such as removing beef and lamb from the menu in 2016 has had a signficant effect on its carbon footprint

Vegan takeaways coming in hot! Meat-free meals quadruple since 2016

The British Takeaway Campaign says the popularity of animal product-free takeaways grew by 388% between 2016 and 2018