The land footprint of food
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The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond
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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.
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@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.
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The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond@infobeautiful surprised not to see chicken on there
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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.
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@infobeautiful surprised not to see chicken on there
@technicaladept @infobeautiful Also some major crops missing like wheat, corn, soybeans
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@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.
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The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
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@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?
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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…
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@infobeautiful surprised not to see chicken on there
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@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.
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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
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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
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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
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@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?
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@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
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@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
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@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.
