Whole foods and meals focused on freshness are the basis of a healthy diet, both for your physical health and emotional well-being and there is a growing movement towards eating less meat, especially beef.

Here, for your information and to inspire you to look at just how much meat you and your family eat, is a guide on why you should cut down on your meat consumption.

Eating Less Meat Will Save You Money

Whole foods are significantly cheaper than meat, both in raw joint form and processed packaged meats too and therefore, switching to a wholly vegan diet will also benefit your wallet as much as your physical health.

The only thing to remember when you do make the switch to veganism is that you must ensure to replace the proteins you previously consumed from beef and chicken with healthy and natural whole foods instead.

Eating Less Meat Will Help You to Maintain a Healthy Weight

When trying out the plethora of fantastically affordable, yet intensely enjoyable vegan restaurants Wicker Park, you will meet other members of the vegan and vegetarian community and your social life will blossom.

Furthermore, replacing takeaway pizzas with whole foods and plant-based proteins will keep your daily calorie count down, which helps a great deal with managing your weight and lowering your BMI.

Eating Less Meat Will Help the Environment

Although it may seem as if your actions and the actions of your family could never have a palpable impact on the natural world, you would be genuinely surprised at just how much difference you can make.

To cement this theory, here are some facts relating to how animal agriculture negatively impacts the environment:

• By 2050, animal agriculture is projected to increase by seventy percent
• Water pollution is worsened by animal agriculture
• Livestock byproducts produce over 30,000 million tons of CO2 every year
• The meat industry is responsible for forest fires and deforestation

Eating Less Meat Will Boost Your Gut Health

A natural advantage of sticking to a meat-free, or at least a low-meat diet, is that, as plant-based alternatives, such as legumes, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables are naturally high in fiber, your digestive system and gut health will benefit too.

The ‘good’ bacteria in your gut rely on the addition of fiber for strength and consuming a high-fiber diet will allow said bacteria to produce immune-supporting and anti-inflammatory jobs throughout your body.

Eating Less Meat Will Lower Your Carbon Footprint

So that cattle can be fed and kept and that they have enough space to graze before being culled for human food, the great forests of the world, such as the infamous Amazon Rainforest, are becoming smaller and smaller at a rapid rate.

Not only that, but the animal agricultural industry contributes to almost fifteen percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, which both lead to the undeniable fact that eating less meat in your family home will have such a positive impact on your carbon footprint.