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

Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  because this is per kilogram, not per serving. you don’t eat a kilogram of chocolate in a day

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Although if you regularly eat a kilo of red meat a day, you should probably talk to your doctor about those blood spots when you wipe your arse.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    True, but still Why is it so much worse than other plant-based foods?

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s mostly an artefact from how we measure it.

      Chocolate demand is rising, which means cocoa demand is rising. It grows best in really warm places, where there’s plenty of readily available mountainous land that’s currently covered by old growth forest. They farm cocoa very unsustainably, by illegally logging the land, growing beans for 5 to 8 years, and moving on (following the illegal loggers)

      That land use change drives climate impact of chocolate. Milk drives the rest.

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      • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Makes sense, thought about this.

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• Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Coffee and chocolate do not grow where you live. It needs to travel the oceans. (Unless you live in a country where it grows)

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ocean travel us very fuel efficient, and also bananas don’t seem to have the same effect despite also coming from afar.

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