What we eat affects our resources which affects the planet. Washington Post has just given us a new and extensive guide to the exact consequences our diets have:
recently reported of a study that has provided us with a new guide on what the exact environmental consequences are of consuming crops, livestock and seafood.
“We need to be thinking about the multiple ways that food affects the environment,” said Ben Halpern, author, professor and director of the University of California’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. The researchers left out food produced in home gardens and by hunters, as well as nonfood crops like coffee, tea and tobacco.
Unsurprisingly, pig and cattle meat ranked far ahead of any other products, with cattle having a massive impact on greenhouse gas emissions and pigs on water quality. The sea produces only 1.1 percent of the world’s food, but it is actually responsible for 9.9 percent of the food system’s global environmental footprint.
Palm and canola crops make widely-used cooking oils, placing their impacts at a similar level to those of some animal-based products.The study found that there are five countries that account for half of the planet’s food systems:It was also discovered that some countries have bigger environmental impacts than others even though they are producing the same types of food.
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