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Beef produces 85 kg CO2e per kg of food. Tofu produces 2.9 kg CO2e per kg of food. (ourworldindata.org)
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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (21 children)

Another "fun" chart on various food sources green house gas emissions adjusted per kilogram of food product.

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I love how the chart breaks cows into multiple categories making it look that much smaller even though it's still chart topping.

Edit: Oddly enough they're citing the same data in both the one I link and OP's link.

[–] spud@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

poore nemecek had flawed methodology and should not be the basis of policy decisions.

[–] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kindly explain where so we can make our own opinion.

[–] spud@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

as just one facet, they count everything fed to beef, including cottonseed, when calculating the inputs. but cotton isn't grown for cottonseed. if we didn't feed a large portion of our annual cottonseed to livestock, it would just be wasted. vegans will tell you that the return is only 1/10 of the input, but that's a lot better than 0/10.

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