Ian Chinich serves as an escalation analyst at Faulkner Consulting Group, a company that partners with providers and payers in tackling complex healthcare challenges. Among Ian Chinich's hobbies are travel and food. He is a vegetarian and has been eating vegan food for over five years.

An exhaustive study conducted by research at Oxford University found that preparing and eating vegan diets can significantly reduce the environmental impact of food choices. Accordingly, vegan diets reduce greenhouse emissions, including land use and water pollution, by up to 75 percent. The study added that a low-meat diet using 50 grams or less meat a day can reduce heat-trapping gas, land use, and water pollution by nearly half compared with high-meat diets.

The findings were established after the team of researchers from the Livestock, Environment, and People (LEAP) project studied the dietary habits of over 55,000 people in the UK. The team then linked the data gathered with the information collected from over 38,000 farms in 119 countries to assess the environmental impact of their diets. Professor Peter Scarborough, the team's lead author, said people's choices about their diets have big ramifications on the environment.