For 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 …
What is the lowest-carbon protein? Chicken, for example, has a GHG footprint almost nine times lower than beef's – generating 5.7kg of CO2e per 100g of protein. Alamy Harder cheeses, such as parmesan, are more carbon-intensive than soft cheeses because they are made with more milk Yoghurt, meanwhile, is surprisingly low-carbon, 2.7kg of CO2e per 100g of protein, as not …
Hong Kong CNN — The Chinese government has issued a new draft list of livestock that can be farmed for meat in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, which is suspected to have originated from wild animals in a Wuhan wet market. China’s Ministry of Agriculture issued a draft list of animals considered fit to be used as livestock on …
