CommonLit: Your Food Choices affect Earth's Climate I need an extended response in a 8th grade writing level.

Are you a meat-eater, vegan, or something in between? In this text, Janet Raloff discusses a study about how your diet can affect the Earth's climate. As you read, take notes on the effects that the production of certain foods has on the environment.

Every action has a cost. That's as true for driving a car as it is for growing food and delivering it to your dinner plate. A team of researchers has just tallied the costs of producing meat versus other types of foods for human diners. They find that meat production - from farm to fork - releases more climate-warming pollution that does producing fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains. A lot more.