An employee inspects meat-free “chicken pieces”, manufactured by Quorn Foods Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Swapping a fifth of the world’s meat consumption for meat-free alternatives made in factories would more than halve global deforestation and related carbon emissions, a group of researchers has found.
Cattle ranches and crops grown to feed cows are two of the biggest drivers of forests being cleared across the tropics, which is continuing despite political pledges to curb the loss of carbon-rich, biodiverse habitats.
Microbial proteins, such as the Quorn mycoprotein made from a fungus and sugar in heated vessels, have previously been…
