People of religious faith may have experienced lower levels of unhappiness and stress than secular people during the UK’s Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021,
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About 28 percent of U.K. Catholics abstain from meat on all Fridays, reducing greenhouse gas emissions .012 percent. A similar level of compliance in the U.S. would have a 20 times greater impact.
The practice dates back to the first century CE, when Pope Nicholas I declared that Catholics were required to abstain from eating meat on Fridays in memory of the death and crucifixion of Christ.