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Epicurious to stop posting beef recipes, citing climate change
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Food website Epicurious will no longer publish beef recipes, citing the impact of raising and consuming cattle on climate change.
Cutting out beef from one's diet is "a worthwhile first step" in cooking more sustainably, wrote Maggie Hoffman, senior editor at Epicurious and David Tamarkin, former digital director of Epicurious in a blog post Monday. Livestock accounts for nearly 15% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions — 41% of those emissions comes from beef, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250216030556.jpg)
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