World’s dogs going vegan ‘would save more emissions than UK produces’

Vegan cats and dogs could help to save the planet

Feeding cats and dogs a nutritionally-sound vegan diet could unlock significant environmental and food energy savings, research by a veterinary professor shows.

Switching pets to vegan diets could benefit environment, study suggests

Reducing the amount of livestock used in food would free up land, reduce emissions and save animals from slaughter.

Switching pets to vegan diets could benefit environment, study suggests

Reducing the amount of livestock used in food would free up land, reduce emissions and save animals from slaughter.

World’s dogs going vegan would save more emissions than UK produces, study shows

Study estimates cats and dogs consume about 9% of all land animals killed for food

Scientists find simple way to combat climate change – with your pet

Moving your pet to a vegan diet could remove greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those produced by Saudi Arabia, a new study suggests.

Adoption of vegan dog and cat diets could have environmental benefits

A new analysis estimates a variety of potential benefits for environmental sustainability—for instance, reduced freshwater consumption and greenhouse gas emissions—that could result from switching all pet dogs and cats in the US or around the world to nutritionally sound, vegan diets. Andrew Knight of Griffith University, Australia, presented these calculations in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.