China&#39;s new rules over meat consumption will reduce emissions

China's new food guidelines to try and curb the country's red meat consumption so as to tackle obesity could also lead to a drastic reduction in China's emissions as factory farms cause methane pollution. If the Chinese people do reduce their meat consumption by about 50%, as per their government’s new dietary guidelines, global climate emissions would also go down by as much as 1.5%.

Environmentalists say government’s reduced lower limit for daily meat consumption, if followed, would cut greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and help meet global climate change goals