Lettuce Explain

#101: Animal Proteins: Nutrition and Environment


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IN THE NEWS: How to avoid toxic kitchen chemicals that could damage your fertility. Also, pot-consuming pregnant women have THC in breast milk weeks later.

MAIN: Animal Proteins: Nutrition & Environment. Replacement of red meat with nuts, legumes, and whole grains, is associated with a reduction in total mortality. Also, producing a unit of animal food protein results in greater environmental impacts than producing an equivalent unit of plant food protein.

TRIVIA: Which item has the greatest environmental impact to produce? Which has the least? 

LISTENER QUESTION:  I do not exercise because I cannot get motivated. How do you suggest I get started?

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Lettuce ExplainBy Tammy Harper