A new study has found that eating more fruits and vegetables as recommended by the USDA could be worse for the environment because certain fruits and vegetable require more resources to produce on a per-calorie basis.
Several studies have suggested that eating meat is bad for the environment, but new research claims that a diet full of produce may be worse in some cases.
A Carnegie Mellon University's press release about the recent study states that “following the USDA recommendations to consume more fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood is more harmful to the environment because those foods have relatively high resource uses and greenhouse ga
