The researchers behind the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet that I referenced earlier predict that switching to a more plant-based diet, which in Western countries, according to their analysis, would mean around an 80 per cent reduction in red meat, a six-fold increase of beans and lentil consumption, a fifteen-fold increase of nuts and seeds consumption, and an increase in the consumption of wholegrains, fruits and vegetables, could save at least 11 million people a year from deaths caused by eating unhealthy foods.79,
