inariEat local though. Importing olive oil from the Med means you're burning diesel.
Given that choice you should buy local, but most of the difference in emissions depends on the type of food, not transport.
https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
From the intro to the study: "In the OMNIVEG study, 14 healthy, physically active men followed a traditional MedDiet for 3 weeks and a vegan MedDiet for 4 weeks, with a 1-week washout."
Small sample size. Highly selective criteria for choosing the subjects. Very short test duration. The impact assessments are opaque, arbitrary and massively over-extrapolated. None measure actual impacts, only projected impacts. This study is a methodological mess: all noise and no signal.
Do it again in a long-term longitudinal study with a large, diverse sample population, and measure real impacts, not proxies, then we'll actually know something.
:O
Worth noting that it was also 16% cheaper, as well.
Why mention Mediterranean? Does a vegetarian Hindu diet not have the same affect?
Diets differ a lot and Hindu is far more vegetarian than Mediterranean.
Because it's not what they tested in the study. If the Hindu vegetarian diet includes dairy, I doubt it'd be as efficient as a vegan diet
Ok, it never occurred to me that even if you actively worship your source of dairy...still not vegan...
You... You know other animals produce milk right?
...like pigs? Ew...
Turns out religious people love loopholes
