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Oliver Schick
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I spoke to an academic recently who told me that dairy is worse for the environment (presumably in terms of damage per calorie) than chicken according to some research from his group - can have a look for a paper if anyone's interested. But if you're going to cut something out, it should be beef and dairy as far as possible. Chicken is relatively low impact (though of course animal welfare is a separate issue).
I'm practically vegan now, but it's pretty easy for me since I never really liked meat that much and giving up dairy wasn't too difficult. (Milk in tea is the one thing that is really hard. I just drink espresso or black coffee instead.) I'd say more than half of my colleagues are vegetarian or vegan. When 60-year-old academics (notoriously resistant to change) are changing their diets I think it says a hell of a lot about the impact on the environment that meat has. (I work in an earth sciences department.)