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Posted: 27 Oct 2021

Taken: 21 Jun 2021

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Climate Change •
Climate Emergency •
carbon footprint •
food miles •
CO2 •
methane •
carbon dioxide •
CH4 •
greenhouse gas emissions •

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clch - food's footprints [range chart, 2018]

clch - food's footprints [range chart, 2018]
Various foods have a range of impacts from greenhouse gas emissions. These gases include carbon dioxide and methane. Cattle, especially intensively reared ones, emit a lot of methane [CH4] as part of their digestive processes, plain grass fed animals produce rather less.
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I'm not sure if this data includes the affects of transporting that food from farm to plate, or other detrimental environmental affects. eg the pollution from fish farms affects water quality.
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 Steve Nordby
Steve Nordby club
Sad to see beer on the list but at least it does better than fish!
3 years ago.
StoneRoad2013 club has replied to Steve Nordby club
Actually, I was surprised it was so low impact ...
After all, all fermentation produces some CO2 as a by-product.
3 years ago.
 Bee Orchid
Bee Orchid
I saw this somewhere recently. I try and shop for locally produced food as much as possible though coffee, of course, and tea, won't ever be local
3 years ago.
 StoneRoad2013
StoneRoad2013 club
I was pointed at this BBC Food piece, which has a table with actual figures for CO2 emissions for various food items [some indicate mode of arrival eg driven from Spain, flown from Africa]

www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/carbon

Some interesting & surprising data there to digest [sorry] ...
3 years ago.

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