Healthcare cost savings from shifting diets
Meat reduction

- Estimates of lives and £ saved by moving away from meat
- External Costs of Animal Sourced Food in the EU ( Impact Institute, 2023) Modelled the healthcare costs of animal agriculture more generally
- Scarborough et al., 2010 found the UK NHS could save nearly a billion by moving to a specific "less meat" diet.
- Obvious CAWF NHS: The _2 billion NHS windfall- Why meat reduction matters (Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation)
- The cost of red and processed meat (Zero Carbon Analytics)
- This 2024 study in nature showed that in the last 30 years more meat in the diet for #china was associated with higher medical bills and more plant based foods lower food bills
- Springmann et al., 2016 found that the healthcare savings from reducing meat could exceed the savings from tackling climate change!
Veg diets
- Lin et al., 2019 finds that vegetarian Tzu Chi buddhists cost Taiwan's medical service less than omnivores of the same faith
- Henderson and Sampson 2023
Fibre
- Schmier et al., 2015 Modelled the healthcare savings from increased fibre diets in reducing constipation in Europe
- Schmier et al., 2014 Modelled the healthcare savings from increased fibre diets in reducing constipation in the US