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The Planet on the Plate: Why Epicurious Left Beef Behind | Epicurious

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In an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking, we won't be publishing new beef recipes on Epicurious.

Save this story Save this story For any person—or publication—wanting to envision a more sustainable way to cook, cutting out beef is a worthwhile first step. Almost 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally come from livestock (and everything involved in raising it); 61 percent of those emissions can be traced back to beef. Cows are 20 times less efficient to raise than beans and roughly three times less efficient than poultry and pork . It might not feel like much, but cutting out just a single ingredient—beef—can have an outsize impact on making a person’s cooking more environmentally

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