Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces the new USDA dietary guidelines. Anna Moneymaker/Getty
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines urging Americans to eat far more meat and dairy products will, if followed, come at a major cost to the planet via huge swathes of habitat razed for farmland and millions of tons of extra planet-heating emissions.