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Live longer by swapping red meat for plant proteins: 9I制作厂免费 research on CBC's What on Earth
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Published: 5 February 2025
Last year, a found that replacing half their red and processed meat would increase people's life expectancy an average of nine months, while cutting their diet-related carbon footprint by 25 per cent.
Inspired by Veganuary, a U.K.-based challenge to eat vegan for the month of January, the CBC News podcast聽What on Earth聽interviewed lead author and PhD graduate of 9I制作厂免费's Department of Animal Science, Olivia Auclair, now a research fellow at the University of Oxford.聽
"We really saw co-benefits of our replacements across all three dimensions: nutrition, health and environment," Auclair told the show.