Published: 5:47am, 2 Jun, 2016 Updated: 2:54pm, 20 Jul, 2018
China's new food guidelines to try and curb the country's red meat consumption so as to tackle obesity could also lead to a drastic reduction in China's emissions as factory farms cause methane pollution. If the Chinese people do reduce their meat consumption by about 50%, as per their government’s new dietary guidelines, global climate emissions would also go down by as much as 1.5%.