Beef
topic on 3 shows · 8 statements across 6 episodes
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Grunwald: Beef Production Is 100 Times Less Efficient Than Direct Grain
“It takes about nine calories worth of grain to produce one calorie worth of chicken meat, and when it comes to cows, which are, you know, much less efficient, dairy is even worse, and beef, it's extraordinary. It can be 30, 50, some people would say a hundred …”
Grunwald: Going vegetarian is climate-equivalent to only cutting beef due to dairy
“Going vegetarian is usually about the same as just cutting out beef, because vegetarians tend to eat more dairy.”
Nearly 60% of plant-based meat buyers are not substituting it for beef.
“What we hear from consumers is that about almost 60% of consumers who are buying plant-based meat are not substituting for beef. It's for a food other than beef, whether it's poultry, pork, seafood, eggs, non-meat, you know, pasta, pizza.”
Guy Raz: 1kg of beef produces 100kg of carbon emissions
“For every kilogram of beef, a hundred kilograms of carbon emissions are produced. And you know, for poultry, it's about 10 kilograms.”
Ben-Shitrit: Beef is not a single product but diverse culinary cultures
“So meat is not a single product. Beef is not a product. Beef is a world of different cultures, different supply chains, and they are all complicated, and they're all tasty. And all have different consumers that want them.”
Teller: Fish has one-eighth the carbon footprint of beef
“And because the carbon footprint of a pound of fish is one eighth the carbon footprint of a pound of beef, we are wildly better off as humanity moving to producing food through aquaculture.”
Radman: Cheese ranks as third worst global food product for environmental impact
“Cheese is the third worst product globally of all food products to produce after beef and lamb.”