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Just did the math on my weekly meat consumption and it's worse than I thought
I tallied up my grocery receipts from the last month and found I'm eating about 4.5 pounds of beef per week. That's roughly 180 pounds a year - I found a carbon footprint calculator that says that's equal to driving a car for 6 months straight. Anyone else ever actually look at the numbers on their own habits?
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stone.lisa1mo ago
My neighbor's SUV gets about 18 miles per gallon and she drives 12,000 miles a year. That's about 667 gallons of gas. Your 4.5 pounds of beef per week comes out to roughly 234 pounds of beef a year if you keep it up, not 180. Those carbon calculators use averages that don't account for where the beef comes from. A grass-fed cow raised on a local farm has a much different footprint than a feedlot operation. I'd be more worried about the saturated fat and cholesterol than the carbon numbers.
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avery_flores171mo ago
@kimmurphy probably forgot to count the beef burritos she eats on the way home from the grocery store, just like your sister with those flights.
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kimmurphy1mo ago
My uncle tried to go vegetarian once and ended up putting cheese on everything... he said his cholesterol went up instead of down. The doctor told him to just eat less cheese and more plants but he got real defensive about his cheddar consumption. Reminds me of when my sister tried to track her carbon footprint and accidentally forgot to count the flights she took that year. It's funny how we pick and choose which numbers to look at...
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