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That water graphic is not accurate. Not only do cattle drink water, we need to water their crops/feed.
I also have never seen chocolate ranked above meat?
and in the USA, way less than 45% of our meat is also used for milk. Most beef is from males and you dont want to drink that milk.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-foods-with-the-largest-environmental-impact/
Their sources are linked including a Science article and U of Oxford database.
Don’t have access on my phone to the journal article, but there is a correction attached to it. But citing a source doesn’t mean they understood it correctly. And I’m not seeing an Oxford link?
This is the Oxford run database: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
Chocolate is ranked the same here, but you need to turn it on and search for it.
The correction says they fixed the article iirc.
Is there any research available that compensates the emission for all the emission saved? For example cows also produce leather and bones right? Not trying to defend meat production but just curious.
It's a good and valid question! :) I'm not sure, but I think one of the takeaways of stuff like this is supposed to be that we should try to do something different in multiple sectors because structurally everything isn't optimised for the well being of the planet. It's optimized simply for profit. We need to go from zero sum game thinking to long term systems thinking. There's different ways we could do a lot of things but good food choices are one way we could see immediate impacts for immediate problems. I eat meat btw, I just try to stay away from red meat because I'm not a massive fan.