"Lettuce Production ‘Three Times Worse Than Bacon’ for..." Topic

… Environment – Study.

"Research published by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has undermined recent advice from the US Department of Agriculture to stick only to its list of "healthier" foods.

In a recent study, scientists from Pittsburgh-situated University claim that eating meat is less harmful for the environment than eating lettuce.

Lettuce is shown to be "over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon," research finds. In the process of the study, scientists analyzed the influence per calorie of different foods in terms of energy cost, water use and emissions…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Meat production worse for the environment?

Vegetable production worse for the environment?

Either way my BLT is looking morally shaky.

….but still delicious.

I'd opt for the BLT everytime!

Meat grown free range on pasture land with a high diversity of different plants is about the best of all.

Look down.

They did this on a per-calorie basis.

1 gram of bacon has 5.41 calories.

It takes 36 grams of bacon to get to 5.0 calories.

So producing 36 times as much lettuce three times as much of an impact. So, obviously, on a per gram basis bacon is twelve times worse.

In other words, you decide what you want your study to prove and then you decide what to measure.

Exactly no one eats lettuce for the calories. That's not why lettuce is even on the plate. Lettuce is not a calorie source.

This is dumb, dumb science, but it's excellent headline creation. This is the second thread on this in so many days. Since headlines that get clicked on create revenue, this study is a huge success. But it's pointless as science.

If you wanted to do science you'd compare complete diets, not pick two items, compare them inappropriately, and then sculpt an attention getting but useless headline..

AGree.

Amicalement
Armand

Have you seen how much water you need to grow rice?

They did this on a per-calorie basis.

Agreed, sloppy science.

Have you seen how much water you need to grow rice?

It's not potable water and it gets reused. What's the issue?

So does the CO2, which gets recycled, and turned into oxygen, which we need to breath.