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The Times of India reported on a study on the Future of Food, conducted at Oxford, and quoted me as saying:

"Consumer choices around food have significant impacts on greenhouse gas emissions. Eliminating meat from the diet can reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions by about 35 per cent and changing from carbon-intensive beef and lamb to less carbon-intensive pork and chicken can reduce food-related carbon emissions by about 18 per cent.

"Overall, changing to a vegan diet can reduce food-related emissions by about a quarter, which in the UK represents about 40 Mt of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions every year. This is equivalent to about half of the total CO2 emissions from the entire UK passenger car fleet."

"If society is serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, then we should be trying to make savings in every area of our day-to-day activities, including in our diet."

The article can be seen here:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/Vegetarian-and-vegan-diets-could-save-millions-of-lives-and-cut-global-warming-study-finds/articleshow/51531801.cms