Replacing beef with a different protein — even for just one meal — can cut the emissions footprint of a person’s diet that day by as much as half.
  • Telorand
    4·
    4 months ago

    Wait, lamb? I thought sheep and goats were relatively low-impact.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      10·
      4 months ago

      No, they’re ruminants, with similar methane-producing bacteria in their digestive systems.

    • Skua@kbin.social
      4·
      4 months ago

      Lamb is less polluting per calorie than beef is, but worse than most other foods. So “relatively low-impact” is true if the thing it’s relative to is farmed beef, but not to potatoes or even chicken