Buying a whole chicken, cutting it into pieces and wrestling with the bones, finding ways to really get the most out of every part—that’s enough! It is the antidote to mindless consumption. And while thoughtfulness is not the only requirement of a climate-conscious diet, it is a necessary condition for one.
the World Resources Institute released a study that found that the emissions reductions from replacing large portions of ruminant meat with legumes were very nearly the same as those from replacing it with poultry or even pork
Replacing all meat and poultry with dairy and eggs, as tends to be the case in Western vegetarian diets, can produce more carbon emissions than a largely plant-based diet that includes poultry, Raychel Santo, a food-and-climate-research associate at the World Resources Institute,