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Planning a BBQ? Not if you want to save the planet

Meat sizzling on the barbecue might be synonymous with summer, but consumers should re-think their menus to save the planet, a US research group has said.

If the biggest beef and lamb consumers reduced their weekly intake to 1.5 burgers by 2050, it could cut greenhouse gas emissions and save forests from becoming farmland, the World Resources Institute said.

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