Action
Focus on what you eat, not where it comes from
The impact of your meal lies primarily in the ingredients. Even imported plants emit less CO₂ than local meat due to the high impact of livestock farming.
Description
What we find interesting:
The emissions from a meal are primarily determined by the ingredients you choose, not by the distance they have traveled.
Plant-based products produce far fewer emissions during production compared to animal products like meat. Even when plant-based products are imported from South America and transported by truck or boat, total CO₂ emissions remain much lower than with local animal products.
Transportation usually contributes only a small percentage to total emissions, while emissions from animal products are much higher due to intensive agricultural processes and methane emissions from livestock.
Plant-based products produce far fewer emissions during production compared to animal products like meat. Even when plant-based products are imported from South America and transported by truck or boat, total CO₂ emissions remain much lower than with local animal products.
Transportation usually contributes only a small percentage to total emissions, while emissions from animal products are much higher due to intensive agricultural processes and methane emissions from livestock.
Steps
- 1Make a meatless meal. For example, a plant-based chickpea curry.
