My Carbon Foodprint
June 17th, 2008 by Kishore
One of my chief takeaways from last night’s event: there are so many motivations to made the food choices we do. Health, Disease Prevention, Pleasure, Culture, Environmental to name a few. It was mildly shocking to hear Christopher mention that under current research conditions, nutritional science will never answer what foods are better for you long term (i.e. broccoli vs meat). It make sense when you consider no people will enter a 40 year trial eating only broccoli or meat.
He did say thinking about the environmental choices is increasingly a good way to choose what to eat.
Here’s what I ate yesterday:
2 Diet Cokes
1 Grapefruit
1 English Muffin
Chicken & Cheese Burrito
Half Smoked Turkey Sandwich
3 Lost Coast Downtown Brown Beers
Hey, it’s certainly not the healthiest, but that’s how I did traveling. According to the Carbon Foodprint Calculator (they didnt have options for my beer or diet coke), I had about 2500 CO2e points. That translates to 5.5 lbs of CO2 per year. According to their figures, I did alright (just below average).
KQED QUEST just ran a radio piece on eating a low carbon diet. Listen to the report below:
The piece has spawned a few choice comments from vegan/vegetarian listeners. Check out their comments here.
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