Traditional Korean spicy beef stew called yukgaejang. Sanghwan Kim / iStock / Getty Images Plus
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Our food choices can have substantial environmental impacts. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, worldwide food production — especially animal agriculture — is the main cause of biodiversity loss. One of the major reasons is that livestock and their feed require a great deal of land.
Certain foods — such as Indian kidney bean curry, Brazilian steak and lechazo, a Spanish dish made with lamb — have an outsized biodiversity footprint, a new study has found.
“Brazilian cattle, for example, need a lot of space. So do Spanish lambs,” said Roman…
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