If you want to become vegetarian or minimize your meat intake, you will need protein in your diet for proper muscular function. Protein is especially important over the age of 60 because our bodies require it as we get older. Check out this article on high-protein meat alternatives. High-Protein Alternatives to Meat Tasty protein with fewer carbon emissions. Cutting out meat and replacing it with plants could have a huge carbon-cutting effect. In fact, according to a report covered by Popular Science in 2020, “the most effective regimens [for cutting climate changing-causing emissions] were veganism, which swaps meats out for plants, and a low-food-chain plan, which swaps them for insects, foraging fish, and bivalves.” In general, foods “that are low on the food chain don’t require feed-based agriculture, so their net emissions are generally low.” Read more