challenge 2
Meatless
Meals
Planting at Rainy Sunday Ranch in Snohomish, WA. Farmers and ranchers shared their perspectives for The Nature Conservancy's 2017 Photovoice Project. Photo by Chelsea Johansen.
By choosing plant-based proteins instead of red meats like beef and lamb, you can reduce your foodprint by one-quarter. Intensive livestock-rearing is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gas emissions.
When you do eat meat, support local, sustainable ranches that steward the land alongside their herds.
1 meatless meal
× 30 days
205,966 tons of carbon saved
If Every1 in Washington traded one meat-based meal for plant-based every day for 30 days, we’d save 205,966 tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
That’s equivalent to 5.3 million young trees helping clear our air for 10 years!
Healthy forests, healthy farms
We owe much to our trees: Washington’s expansive forests provide water, wood, and jobs. In the Central Cascades, they sustain a watershed that feeds an agricultural treasure. The Yakima Valley’s farming legacy stretches back 150 years, and today yields rich crops of...
