Switching from beef to chicken isn’t the sustainability flex you think it is
SalonFor climate conscious eaters, beef has become the food to avoid. For many people in the U.S., it’s factory farmed chicken, which has about one tenth the climate impact per serving. At a glance, the carbon footprint of factory farmed chicken is dramatically lower than that of industrially raised beef: These chickens produce about 10 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents per pound of meat, while industrially produced beef’s footprint is ten times that per serving. Like all animals, chickens still produce a lot of waste — and chicken manure presents some unique problems, especially when there’s a lot of it in one place. The animal welfare case against factory farmed chicken There’s also a compelling animal welfare argument to challenge the idea of chicken as a good swap for beef: By many metrics, chicken production is more cruel.
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