From Our World in Data
The difference between beef and lamb, and pigs and poultry is way more than I thought.
How is the farm emissions from milk so much lower than from beef?
It’s per kg of product so I’m thinking the product is much larger relative to the herd
The most efficient way to produce proteins from animals is to farm carp, with beef being the worst possible way.
It was never about efficiency in any way, it’s all about preferences
I didn’t think coffee and chocolate would be so high.
I wonder where tea falls there?
I’m not full vegan/vegetarian, but I’ve cut out all the beef/dairy that I can from my diet, just because of how bad cows in general are for the environment with their methane farts, though I think there may be methods to reduce emissions. I’m guessing that costs money though, so fuck that, we need cheap beef. I think if people just took that step of cutting that one animal out of our food chain, it’d be alot easier for people to do, rather than trying to cut out all meat and going vegan.
similar here - graphs like this helped the push to cut out most red meat from our menu. Emphasis “most” as we are neither vegan nor do we refuse beef items at restaurants or as guests.
but like you said, by just cutting out most beef, while allowing occasional items, would be a big step forward. We also cut out some pork, and try to get most protein from poultry and plant-protein. The reason for pork then adds seeing how terrible their conditions are and knowing how smart they are.
