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Our food systems account for more than a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, making animal agriculture one of the largest contributors to climate change. With that said, food production and consumption are rapidly deteriorating the planet. What we are eating is pushing the planet to the breaking point on climate change and deforestation.

Earth Day Network’s Foodprints for the Future campaign highlights the different ways our food choices affect the planet, and educates individuals and institutions to make smarter choices. 

So what is a foodprint?

A foodprint measures the environmental impacts associated with the growing, producing, transporting and storing of our food—from the natural resources consumed, to the pollution produced to the greenhouse gases emitted. By reducing your foodprint, you can help do your part to save the planet.

The most immediate action we can all take right now to help mitigate the climate crisis is to eliminate meat from our diet or at the very least reduce our meat consumption. We need to fight climate change with diet change!

Check out our feature page and articles below.

For our future,

Jillian Semaan
Food and Environment Director

Miss Montana advocates for plant-based diets amid public backlash In Montana, agriculture and livestock are Montana's largest industries. So when a vegan who promotes plant-based diets was crowned Miss Montana USA, Montanans had a cow.

A carbon-neutral future can still be delicious Eating for the planet isn’t some lettuce-strewn dystopia—we only need to find our favorite plant-based meat and share them with our friends. What better way to slash our carbon footprints than over a burger?

Golden Globes goes plant based to address climate change Guests at the Golden Globes Awards attended a pre-show dinner that was entirely plant-based. With that, a signal was sent to the world: Animal agriculture is one of the major drivers of our climate crisis.

How to go vegan: 5 lessons from a meat-eating Midwesterner Read how our staff writer went vegan cold turkey, why it stuck and what he learned on his ongoing journey to swap out meat and dairy.

Go plant based: Life-hacks and staff picks Life can get busy, and it can be hard to know where to start to do your part for the planet. Check out some helpful plant-based tricks to make fighting climate change that much easier.