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'Trillion dollar savings' if the world went vegan

The Food Chain

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What would happen if the world went vegan tomorrow? Dr Marco Springmann is a researcher at Oxford University. He's crunched the numbers to forecast how the global economy might benefit if the world stopped eating animal products by the year 2050. And he says the savings would amount to trillions of dollars. (Photo: Tomatoes and cucumbers for sale. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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