The land footprint of food
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond
@infobeautiful I'm not against the message, but I don't think this particular infographic works really well.
A kg. of, say, carrots is in no way comparable to kg. of coffee or beef when looking at calories and nutrients.
So what's the message supposed to be? -
@infobeautiful I'm not against the message, but I don't think this particular infographic works really well.
A kg. of, say, carrots is in no way comparable to kg. of coffee or beef when looking at calories and nutrients.
So what's the message supposed to be?@Kir @infobeautiful yeah. Maybe calories would be a better metric, if the goal is to compare (but that would make coffee meaningless). Hard to capture all in a single image.
-
@infobeautiful I'm not against the message, but I don't think this particular infographic works really well.
A kg. of, say, carrots is in no way comparable to kg. of coffee or beef when looking at calories and nutrients.
So what's the message supposed to be?@Kir @infobeautiful Also have you seen the land people keep sheep on around here? It's practically vertical.
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond@infobeautiful surprised not to see chicken on there
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond@infobeautiful Giving absoluite numbers is highly questionable. Cows may live in cages or on pastures. Pigs can even live in multi-story buildings, but I know them living in little styes. Is their food counted in? What if the food is human food scraps? A lot of questionmarks here.
-
@infobeautiful surprised not to see chicken on there
@technicaladept @infobeautiful Also some major crops missing like wheat, corn, soybeans
-
R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
-
@infobeautiful I'm not against the message, but I don't think this particular infographic works really well.
A kg. of, say, carrots is in no way comparable to kg. of coffee or beef when looking at calories and nutrients.
So what's the message supposed to be?@Kir @infobeautiful compared to rain forest coffee plantations use less water so we should cut down the rain forest to save water.
More or Less - Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef? - BBC Sounds
Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with BBC Sounds.
BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond -
@GlasWolf @signaleleven @Kir @infobeautiful I wouldn’t even know how to calculate the calories in coffee. Do you eat the beans or make it into a drink?
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond@infobeautiful, there's one thing blatantly obviously missing from that: time. Without that, it has to be asked whether that 87.8m² of land is permanently and irrevocably allocated to that 1kg of cheese, and why haven't we run out of land yet…
-
@infobeautiful surprised not to see chicken on there
-
@technicaladept @infobeautiful Also some major crops missing like wheat, corn, soybeans
@Paija2021 @technicaladept @infobeautiful soybeans aren’t listed but Tofu is. It’s made from soybean milk.
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespondOne might grow a kilo of tomatoes on that land but the fertilizer needed is not included
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond@infobeautiful Then I should have 4 times more sausages than cheese!
Does that footprint include water consumption? Since tomatoes need a lot of it, to have a good yield -
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond@infobeautiful I am curious about the land usage per calory of some of theses, like between carrot and potatoes. On the other hand, I don't eat coffee or cheese for its calories :3
thanks for sharing, it's a nice way to show things
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond@infobeautiful somebody please tell me how to grow 1kg of carrots on 30cm²
-
@infobeautiful I'm not against the message, but I don't think this particular infographic works really well.
A kg. of, say, carrots is in no way comparable to kg. of coffee or beef when looking at calories and nutrients.
So what's the message supposed to be?@Kir @infobeautiful also how in the hell do you omit chicken?
-
@infobeautiful somebody please tell me how to grow 1kg of carrots on 30cm²
@CIMB4 0.3 of a 100×100 cm (= 1 m²) square would be a an area the same as 30×100cm rectangle, which is 3 000 cm²
-
@Kir @infobeautiful compared to rain forest coffee plantations use less water so we should cut down the rain forest to save water.
More or Less - Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef? - BBC Sounds
Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with BBC Sounds.
BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)
@ianturton @Kir @infobeautiful heard this one, very good. As usual with MoL, the lesson is, it’s not as simple as the viral stat seems.
-
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond@infobeautiful Most ecosystems need a large grazer species or they go away, and so does nigh-everything adapted to live there.
The human-centric "land area to feed humans" is, well, yet more mass extinction, rather than virtue.
Yes, open-loop farming practices are terrible things and should be replaced with more responsible practices. This is not the same thing as an argument that beef is unbearably agriculturally expensive or that agricultural monoculture is a desirable use of land.
