Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat

shplane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Torben@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because it’s per kg of product. It takes about 10 kg of milk to make 1 kg of cheese. Plus a bunch of extra production steps.

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  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s also why coffee looks so high. But a kg of coffee makes around 75 cups of coffee while a kg of beef is 2000-3000 kcals

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Coffee and chocolate have much better PR than red meat.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Then kg is a poor choice of metric. They should’ve gone with dietary calories.

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• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cheesemaking uses even more dairy than it being in liquid form. Varies depending on what you’re looking at but it can be around a 10:1 ratio. Butter from dairy milk has an even worse conversion

  Have to make up for the lost water when turning it into a solid and other stuff you strip from the milk and that’s going to be from even more dairy going into it

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  • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I predict goat and sheep cheese is better than cow cheese in emissions, but is it about the same 10:1 ratio for output?

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    • Whattochoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Why would it be better? It is a smaller animal and also ruminants, which is the important factors. Most likely worse than cattle.

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      • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Uhh, Mostly because the graph already shows lamb and mutton to be half the impact as beef.

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