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Michael Mosley wants to find out how much meat is safe to eat, he arrives in Boston to find out the results of research conducted on red meat and processed meat... Taken from Should I Eat Meat?

The WHO recently announced that eating too much processed meat can lead to cancer, but what makes processed meat so bad for you?

The heavy impact on the environment of meat production was known but the research shows a new scale and scope of damage, particularly for beef. The popular red meat requires 28 times more land to produce than pork or chicken, 11 times more water and results in five times more climate-warming emissions. When compared to staples like potatoes, wheat, and rice, the impact of beef per calorie is even more extreme, requiring 160 times more land and producing 11 times more greenhouse gases.

Michael Mosley compares the difference between a meat lunch and a vegetarian lunch to find out whether or not it is actually healthier to be a vegetarian?