Ranked: The Foods With the Largest Environmental Impact
Ranked: The Foods With the Largest Environmental Impact
Food and agriculture have a significant impact on our planet, particularly in terms of carbon emissions, water withdrawals, and land use.
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It excludes the fact that animal-based farming contributes greatly to water pollution, too.
The source paper does a lot of napkin math without context apparently.
Have you read the original study?
Have you? I’m going by what I heard people say about it.
Yes, many times. I've linked it in this thread.
Methane with cow-based agriculture too
The original study does show water pollution, even going so far as to split it between acidification and eutrophication.
Good find. Yes, the original study accounts for water pollution, but this chart (conveniently) excludes it.
When you include the water pollution, the impact to the environment are FAR, FAR worse than this chart suggests.
I don't think it's really an "exclusion" to show the relative carbon impacts. A more comprehensive infographic could certainly be made, but there's nothing wrong with a simple one that focuses on a specific topic.
I guess that depends on the definition of “environmental impact”, but you're right about nothing wrong with focusing on a specific topic. 👌
and water consumption as well, beef cattle consume enormous quantities of water in the form of hay