The article starts with this sentence, "A flexitarian' diet which includes one portion of meat a day has a lower carbon footprint than a vegetarian diet that includes dairy, according to a major new study."
However, if you read the whole article you discover that they make a questionable assumption. Their vegetarian diet includes more diary than their flexitarian diet. I don't think that is a safe assumption. When I was flexitarian I ate almost no dairy.
More ever, when you finish reading the article you discover that a vegan diet is like 10 X better than the average diet and something like 2 X better than their flexitarian diet.
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However, if you read the whole article you discover that they make a questionable assumption. Their vegetarian diet includes more diary than their flexitarian diet. I don't think that is a safe assumption. When I was flexitarian I ate almost no dairy.
More ever, when you finish reading the article you discover that a vegan diet is like 10 X better than the average diet and something like 2 X better than their flexitarian diet.
Full article here