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Infographic: The Carbon Footprints of 20 Foods, Shown as Car-Miles

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A new Environmental Working Group report on the climate and health impacts of meat is stylish and smart, as this chart makes clear

You might think about meat differently afterreading "The Meat Eater's Guide to Climate

Change + Health," out this week from the

Environmental Working Group. This well -

researched report on the consequences of our

animal-heavy diet is probablyone of the most

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significant documents of its kind since

"Livestock's Long Shadow," the controversial

2006 document on animal agriculture and climate

put out by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture

Organization.

It's especially worth perusing because its

calculations of the environmental impacts of specific foods account for the entire lifecycle of each product, rather than just the production phase (the

atter is a much more typical but also much less informative approach). And the EWG manages to present its findings stylishly and in a way that people

can actually relate to, as in the following infographic, which shows how the carbon footprint of a serving of everything from lentils to lamb translates

nto miles driven in a car. (Click on the image for a larger version.)

Here's a link to the full report.

Images: Courtesy of the EWG

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Combining organic foodadvocacy with r educing carbon emissions seems like an odd choice.

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Even as a supporter of meat reduction for the sake of the greater ecology, I'm bothered by the implication that 4 ozof lettuce is fit for normalized comparison to 4 oz of lamb. 4 ozof red meat should

beabout 200-350 calories depending upon the cut, whereas 4 oz of vegetables might total 31 calories. By my math then if we correctfor calories, 3. 5 miles of vegetables would feed you as well as 7

miles of red meat.


It seems unfair to rate lamb so badly without differentiating between locally grown and stuff imported from Australia or New Zealand. I get my lamb from a farmer that lives less than20 miles away -

you can't tell me that has off-the-chart emissions. Give the lamb market a break - it' s already the leastconsumed meat in the US (despite its deliciousness).

Andwhat does eating myturkey skinless have to do with carbon miles?


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