▲ 183 ▼ Food: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across the Supply Chain (slrpnk.net) submitted 2 years ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world 29 comments fedilink hide all child comments From Our World in Data
[–] blazera@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) How is the farm emissions from milk so much lower than from beef? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] echutaa@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) It’s per kg of product so I’m thinking the product is much larger relative to the herd permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 1 point 2 years ago Probably a part of it. Working with the typical ages at which they are each killed, a cow killed for beef produces around 100kg meat per year, whereas a cow killed for milk produces both 300kg of milk solids per year and 25kg of meat per year. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echutaa@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) It’s per kg of product so I’m thinking the product is much larger relative to the herd permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 1 point 2 years ago Probably a part of it. Working with the typical ages at which they are each killed, a cow killed for beef produces around 100kg meat per year, whereas a cow killed for milk produces both 300kg of milk solids per year and 25kg of meat per year. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 1 point 2 years ago Probably a part of it. Working with the typical ages at which they are each killed, a cow killed for beef produces around 100kg meat per year, whereas a cow killed for milk produces both 300kg of milk solids per year and 25kg of meat per year. permalink fedilink source parent
