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Foods sourced from poultry, like turkey meat or eggs, tend to be lower in emissions as animal-sourced foods go, because chickens and turkeys can be raised without a lot of land or feed. But pork-based stuffing has quite the environmental impact.

Cheese, and dairy in general, comes with a heavier carbon footprint than many other animal-sourced proteins, because it comes from cows.

The single dish with the highest carbon footprint is not the meat — it’s the mac n cheese, at nearly 1.8 kilograms of CO2, thanks to the dairy. Swapping out the dairy mac n cheese for a vegan version — with creaminess coming from cashews instead — can save over 1.6 kilograms of CO2.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the vegan meal comes in with the lowest carbon footprint. In total, a vegan dinner with tofurkey and vegan macaroni and cheese has only 28 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions of the turkey dinner.

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