A mammoth adjustment to beef’s carbon footprint. Poore and Nemecek made a correction to their seminal paper, adjusting the carbon footprint of beef from 100 to 227 kg CO2eq / kg beef, by my calculations. This corrected data is not widely known and yet clearly shows a path forward for climate change.
by JKayBay
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This is so interesting and exciting for potentially reducing climate change. My question would be in their updated calculations they say they have now included the carbon capture potential of the land currently occupied by cattle but wouldn’t at least some of this land need to be used to produce other food for us if we were to stop producing cattle? Obviously less land would be needed to produce this alternative food but I just wonder if they’ve included that in the calculations?
Though maybe the fact that we grow crops to feed the cattle currently means that the cropland used for that can just be used to feed humans directly and therefore no extra cropland is needed.
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