We asked an expert to break it down for us.
the food. So wasted food is like wasted land. Deforestation happens somewhere to produce more food, because the food we produced on land we already cleared, we threw away. So there's a land use aspect, there's a water use aspect, and then there are the greenhouse gas emissions.the food even leaves the farm. It's all about the emissions involved in the growing of the food.
Sure. About a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions comes from the agricultural and forest sector. Half of those emissions happen on farms and are the result of producing the food that we eat. The other half of them are from the tens of millions of hectares of forest that we clear every year, mostly to make room for more farms.
So you've got the ruminant meats on the high end, and then you've got plant-based foods on the lower end. And then in the middle you have basically all the other animal proteins. I'm pretty sure chicken is about three times as greenhouse gas intensive as beans. Remember I said beef was twenty times more intensive, so chicken is already a lot more efficient.
But then it gets kind of complicated. There are many different types of seafood. Is it farmed? Is it wild? Where was it caught or farmed? All of those things have a bearing on how sustainable and climate-friendly it is. If you want to drill down, go on websites likeOn to dairy—why is it lower in emissions than beef?
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