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A new study finds a vegan diet offers price parity

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The price of animal-based products and vegan alternatives has now reached almost the same, according to a new study in the Netherlands.

The study concluded that while animal-based products had increased in price between February and June this year, their vegan alternatives did not, leading to relative price parity.

In another study, UK-based analytics company Kantar found that on average plant-based meals cost 40 per cent less than meat or fish-based diets.

Media spokesperson at New Zealand’s Vegan Society, Claire Insley, said that as governments globally attempt to mitigate climate change, the simplest change remains eating a plant-based diet.

“It is easily possible to feed 8 billion people on a plant-based diet and return much of the less fertile lands to native bush and forests.”

About 85 per cent of global farmlands are used to produce animals needed for human consumption, she said, arguing this is not a sustainable approach to food production as it leads to the wasting of resources such as land and water and an increase in carbon emissions.

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