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- Avoiding high-emission foods can have a bigger climate impact than any other consumption change.
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Our consumption habits emit billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Our diets account for one-fourth of those emissions.
The food we eat emits so many greenhouse emissions because of the land it takes to grow it, but it also has something to do with biology. This video explains why the production of some foods emit more than others, and which foods to avoid to be a more climate-conscious consumer.
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"Don't eat beef."
Hindus: You know I am somewhat of an environmentalist myself.
Cow milk is also contributor to green house gas emissions.
That means you must also give up diary products also.
Consuming dairy product is also consider as NON-VEG.
Percapita india produce lesser pollution than western country
@@dotpls and then u do sm research and find out that per captial emission of US and Saudi is much much larger than India
Ravi Ahuja that's irrelevant because ur country is far more overpopulated than the US and SA. I've been to india and the moment i stepped out of my plane it was hard to breathe, and i couldn't see 1km into the distance because of smog.
Bhuddism:I’m withbrother
As an Asian I was panicking seeing rice there
Well rice isn't innocent either...
Literally same
@@biomutarist6832 then what should we eat? We usually eat a combination of nuts, veggies and rices along with some meat. Wheat arent that far from rice in terms of emission anyway.
@@habibainunsyifaf6463 wasn't saying we shouldn't eat, but that rice farming has an impact too.
@@biomutarist6832 yeah , but it's not gonna change the fact that I eat rice everyday .
Microsoft: let's make presentations easy way.
Vox: hold my scissors and papers.
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Wth dude....i'll give her 10 extra points 110/100 just for her efforts to explain such a serious issue.
Also those chart making skills that school taught us must be useful/utilized somewhere right?
When your internet is down so you have to make the graph yourself:
When I went to college I almost automatically cut down on eating meat because it was so expensive.
and that's WITH all the government subsidies! choose fruits, veggies, nuts & grains instead 🌱
zack and have extremely low brain growth and muscle mass
Martyr there’s nuts, pulses and legumes. And eggs. Not eating meat isn’t going to make you small brained and weedy
Martyr, lol you know proteins and other vitamins from meat can be found in other forms of food right? Otherwise the population of vegetarians especially vegans would be very small or non existent.
@@martyr3378 yeah, because boy the herbivore dinosaurs sure were weak huh?
Vox: 'Don't eat beef'
Me who lives in a country where beef is unpopular and expensive : 'ok'
India
In India Muslims are being killed for cows and beefs and this guy is asking such a question....Seriously...
@@ifurkend you can't even buy it ... it's god for hindus .. somethin' like that
@@Partytime60 they deserve that, they r becoming a source of global warming
Me who lives in a country where beef is loved and in a region with the best beef in the country.....
'yeahhh, cycling and public transport is the way to go' 😃
is co2 per kilogram the best measurement? I feel like co2 per calorie may be a better measurement. Some fruits have so much water that they're very heavy, but don't provide much energy, so it's not a fair comparison. I'm not defending beef though!
Of course is not! This is why this does not make sense...
Kurzgesagt does that in their meat video and they state that there isn’t much of a difference.
I haven’t looked at the sources though
Eating less meat won’t save the planet
Or express it on protein basis and things change dramatically.
Hats off to the design and graphics team! Everything is so smooth
I appreciate that you linked the videos of animal burping.
You American and European use toilet pepar that contribute most to climate change. We in Asia just wash with water
@@rafiali7466 this is really off-topic but yeah
I don't get why people are using toilet papers
Gotta cite your sources
I could say this is the best way to describe it :
American : *uses toilet paper*
Asian : f****** Primitive
@@kevinkurnias Japan: *2075*
Vox: the foods that contribute most to climate change are beef...
Me: Yes! I don’t eat beef!
Vox: ...and coffee and chocolate.
Me: 😟
Although the figures are per kilo and a kilo of coffee makes a lot of cups- that's how I'm trying to justify it to myself anyway
But boy do I eat a lot of chocolate...
Also you can buy organic fair trade chocolate and coffee which have a smaller impact because they don't deforestate tropical forests and use less harsh chemicals / fertilizers
I wonder how much of the chocolate is due to animal products like milk being used while processing it.
@joaohumbg Thanks now I feel less bad haha.
Vox: "don't eat beef"
Me, who lives in a family of beef farmers: *confused sweating*
Governments need to protect cow farmers economically as their business might become obsolete/reduced as part of any halfway decent environmental plan
Any chance you can branch out into other livestock?
Go vegan my man.
You can slowly shift to a different profession
LauraEtarhienyo sounds like a psychological issue to me. It can also be a physical issue but that sounds unlikely.
when I was young, I used to think how nice it is for westerners to eat meat for so cheap, that they can eat it on daily basis, but now I am thankful for having rich vegetarian culture.
I don't think u get this but u r a part of the problem because u eat dairy food too
Meat industry is soo heavily subsidised by tax payer money. It’s not even profitable but government always bailing farmers out. Disgusting.
Most western countries have a rich vegan culture - you literally have to be rich to afford it!
@@ZopcsakFeri that might be because we haven't commit enough mono-culture to grow the vegetables and fruits to feed a country meat farming is just more space effecient and we gonna need to do it in a better way before we can commit
@@milesandrews6711 it's actually just not true at all. The cheapest foods on the planet are vegan foods. If you want prepackaged garbage then sure..its just as expensive as non vegan prepackaged garbage. Also monocroping is a horrible way to grow food.
I really love how you created a physical bar graph instead of just using computer genrtated ones
Thanks for mentioning this!
I actually hated and disliked video because of this, they have no content so they show us boring cutting and pasting. They could have shown us cool animations like kuezgesagt but I guess they are lazy, especially the lady in the video.
@@gauravkumawat7962 Thanks for sharing!
Gaurav Kumawat they are not lazy, it would of took a lot of effort to make the graph by hand and it would of been much easier to do it digitally. I personally really love this format and think this video had great content.
If they produced the graphs digitally, the video would have been half the length.
I thought I couldn't let eating beef because I love it so much, but actually after a month of start a mediterranean diet (basically less "american" food) I don't even think about it. There are so many food that you can like and it's good for you and the environment.
I've drastically cut down on eating meat and especially beef too. I eventually relented and made spaghetti bolognese the other day but it gave me an upset stomach and felt bloated. Making the jump to a beef free diet isn't going to be too hard although I will miss the taste of a good steak.
I just keep beef as a special treat once a week and that works great for me :)
there are so much more options than just plain veganism or vegetarianism
Good
Will H yes what people don’t realize is how fast your tastebuds and stomach digestion changed. that’s why people who are vegan and vegetarian have sometimes gotten very sick when they’re “friends” fed them meat/dairy as a prank
me : laugh in Indian.
@karan bhoyar *bengalis and North-easterners have entered the chat*
Indians dont eat beef but there is like 200 million Cows in India. That itself is too much emissions.
@@hnys7976 Thats why i thought he shouldn't laugh in Indian, cause his country also contributes a lot in gas emissions with cows.
Have you figured out how to use a toilet or do just squat down in the street and drop off a load?
Eric Cartman so mature of you to sit and make fun of a country based on stereotypical thoughts.
me, a Hindu : *sees video title, immediately hits the like button*
* Lynches done poor guy while being the largest beef exporter *
@@Amer-uw1hx *carabeef exporter
@@user-ei3su5zs8z(milk) 10% methane gas ...it too less when compared to beef
@@Amer-uw1hx true 😂.
They are protecting cows for religious perpose, and finding reason for that. Idk what will they do with so much cows.
@@inamdarsaquib9528 Ofcourse both religious and environmental reasons. Any problem madrasachop ?
You could do sequel to episode about crops that require the most water. We have many places in the world that have had or are facing zero days. In Australia, we have a '"water buyback" scheme for the Murray-Darling Basin (Australia's food bowl. Which stretches from Queensland through NSW all the way to Victoria). It was meant to be a way of balancing the use of water by limiting the volume of water that farmers could extract from the river. The government 'buys back' water entitlements from growers, thereby reducing the amount of water taken from the river.
Now you don't need to be a farmer to own water entitlements, in fact the Chinese and the US are the biggest investors in our water entitlements. The government was caught paying $80 million of tax payers money to company that is registered to the Cayman Islands.
Last year during our summer (which is very dry) water stopped flowing in the rivers causing large blue-green algae blooms which starved oxygen to all the fish. Millions of fish were killed and seen floating in the river. While there was a drought and lot of finger pointing on to blame, what we need to remember is that the basin can only support so much. Why are we growing things like cotton, chestnuts and rice? Things that require so much water. We should be growing things that suit our climate. This is why a follow up video to this one but about water usage I think is important for people to know.
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You have a point. They plant cotton, rice etc because we buy it.
That was informative. What is it that you do? Are you a researcher or some sort?
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Then again cattle has to be fed as well. And water is again used to grow food for them. I don't know the numbers, not an expert. Of course if we stopped eating beef for example more of other water consuming food would have to be produced. The question is what is the equasion. Which industry would use more water.
Your comment is insightful but things always expand further.
My conclusion always ends up on an argument that land is not to be used as we use it. There is a reason why Australian indeginous people lived the way they have. In some inhospitable lands we are not able to play god, or not play him for a certain time.
People who tweeted “Pray for the Amazon” while eating in Mc Donals. I hope they watch this.
Really good bigmac btw but pray for the Amazon was mostly about how the Brazilian government has the evil plan to make more agriculture not just for cattle, also corn, rice and some other grains, I learn portuguese and I watch news from Brazil so that's how I know.
Eat the bats cats an rats !
Listen bud, we won’t take you seriously if you pridefully tell people to go vegan.
Pork burgers incoming
Gary Mingy that was an awful time to comment, no bats please.
How many of you are familiar with these concepts?
*Marginal Land vs. Arable Land*
Many people ask why not use the land to grow food for humans?" *Because you can't.*
-Around 30% of land on the earth is agricultural land (useable for the purpose of making food, the rest is junk).
-Take 66% of that 30% of land. That is "marginal land."
- Marginal land is not suitable for growing crops due to soil quality or not enough water etc. So what can you do with it?
-You can have cows graze on the cellulose on this land (again, this land is not suitable for growing edible crops), and turn that cellulose into protein and various nutrients humans need.
*Ruminant Upcycling*
-33% of that agricultural land mentioned above can be used for crops. (Nice.) This is called "arable land."
-Though, for every 100lbs of human food produced from crops on this land, roughly 37 lbs of inedible plant byproduct is produced.
-Cows can eat this inedible plant matter and turn it into protein.
-Worthless cellulose + Cow = Human Food
*Biogenic Carbon Cycle* in a nutshell:
-Methane has stronger warming potential than CO2 so cow burp is bad, right? Well...
-Plants capture carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis
-Cows eat the plant, take the carbon.
-Cows burp out the carbon in the form of methane (remember methane is CH4 - Carbon, 4 Hydrogens)
-12 yeas later, Methane is broken down back into carbon dioxide via hydroxyl oxidation.
*These carbon molecules are the same molecules that were in the plant the Cow ate. It's a natural cycle.
(By the way, the carbon dioxide added to the environment by burning fossil fuels (not part of any life cycle) stays in the atmosphere for 200 〜 1000 years)
You're doing the Lord's work, son. This comment should be far more highly rated. Thanks for your video on this subject.
@@JodyBruchon People don't care about truth. It makes me very sad and depressed that people will ignore this. We learned about the life cycle as children, yet supposed educated professionals and governments are spreading these lies. I can forgive people not knowing the difference between arable and marginal soil though.
The land that cattle live on being suitable or not for human crop growing doesn’t change that a 3rd of all edible crops grown are fed to cattle. Which is more than we would need to replace the foods we get from the animals. Because they are just that inefficient. That also doesn’t change that land not being suitable for crops doesn’t make it okay or sustainable to destroy it by wiping out its ecosystem to put down cattle ranches.
The methane being broken down would only be relevant if the levels of methane being emitted were to fall. . .otherwise you just have a sustained rise in methane levels.
And about the ruminant up cycling. . .okay, but that byproduct is not what sustains cows. As stated before, a third of all human edible crops are grown to feed livestock specifically. Which is more calories and nutrition than they provide. . .also being able to eat some waste doesn’t change any of that.
"sees rice"
Asian: *confused sweating*
💦But since the rice is usually cooked with water, 1kg of it can serve 14 meals for average person.
Really man, you gonna compare 60 with 5 - it is *twelve* times! And like the other comment, you can feed a lot more people with just 1 cup of rice (2 people can have a good lunch)
Hindus: They called me a madman
😂😂😂
All is fun and games until you realize India accounts for 18% of the world's beef exports. :/
@@hamzasaghir2961 business is business
@@hamzasaghir2961 Well I think most of them in India don't produce beef on purpose. The cows that are not capable or out of their milk producing capacity are the ones that are sent to slaughter house. Considering the fact that there is no industrial size cow farming nor cows bought up just for the sake of meat, India is better compared to what Brazil is doing.
@@manjunathmmp you are not awear about the situation in states like uttar Pradesh Bihar and other states , where cows and raised to be sold in meat market.
Good take on a complex topic. I would really like to see emissions per calorie instead of kilogram. Or compare the emissions of different 2000 calorie diets, one plant based, one with govt recommended servings, a keto diet, etc. More like this please!
I agree that the 1kg scale doesn’t tell the whole story. 1kg of coffee is a month’s worth of consumption for a caffeine head. 1 kg of beef is a couple large steak dinners
This was exactly my thought. Humans have to have a certain number of calories a day and meat has a much higher caloric density than other foods. When you take that into consideration, certain meats at least might actually be better for the environment.
Just a note - I'm not trying to take away anything from the video. The creator obviously did a lot of research to reach her conclusions and this information is very compelling.
@@jmhudgens1 Well, if you're trying to get your calories through coffee, you're in for a ride (to the nearest hospital)... :D
@@cv4981 the problem with food waste is that it's not a bug, it's a feature. Capitalism thrives on manufactured scarcity
@@jmhudgens1 well anything is better than beef but the most sustainable diet is vegan the second best is vegetarian.
Growing and consuming plants takes up less space and produces less emissions over all. We would need globally around four times less land than we currently use for agriculture if we were to all go vegan or vegetarian and that is if we were to feed every single person on this planet.
Meanwhile me: *Slowly stopping eating the cheeseburger*
someone woke up especially hillarious today. .
yo give me that chesseburger
Just get buffalo or ostrich taste the same
For those wondering if coffee/chocolate is worse for the environment than most animal products, remember that a filter coffee uses between 15-18 grams of coffee, whereas the average serving of meat in a main is more like 150-220 grams. The chart is comparing products per kg.
But the 15 - 18 grams of coffee is just a useless drug. So if meat gets forbidden, we also have to forbid coffee, alcohol, cannabis, sweets and junk food. 😉
Sounds like someone trying to justify their caffeine addiction.
220 grams does sound like a lot.
I've already cut beef out of my diet because it makes my stomach upset and it isnt even that good. My next step is to reduce the amount of chicken I eat and switch to plant based milks
You won't regret it! Plant based milks are so good
Adrianna Fitzgerald I will echo Zoe Swan and say yes, plant milks are delicious! I personally love a coconut/almond milk blend, but there are many many choices out there. The surprise benefit for me when I stopped consuming dairy products was that some mild joint pain that I had blamed on “getting old” (I’m over 50) all went away. I truly feel better, less pain and fatigue, now that I eat only plants.
Coolio! Personally, my favorite is Ripple (a split pea milk). But you should try multiple and find what you like.
Cool but who asked
there is no such thing as 'plant based milk'
Can we take a moment to appreciate how neat and organized the graphic is? If it were me I assure you it would’ve been a mess
its very nice, but excel can do this for you... I wonder why she chose do make physical visuals.
It's all lies.
Bart: “Don’t have a cow, man”
Prophetic?
that moment you realize that india has the most cows and they aint killing them
And yet, their emissions are a fraction that of the USA's, both in terms of per-capita and in total.
@@TerenceMichaelReeves yes but you guys make up for that by burning crops every year in winter.
@@burhan1527 "you guys"?
Actually, there is a misunderstanding about contribution of beef in green house emissions specific to Indian context. The statement "beef industry causes global warming" is only true in West, where there is seperate industrial livestock farming for meat. Those breed are fast-growing high weight-gaining category specially grown for meat. They are not much useful for dairy industry, which has other type of breeds. In India, there is no industrial livestock farming for beef. Almost all methane emissions in India is from cattle grown for milk. Our dairy farmers and farms give them for slaughter only once they run dry (no more able to produce milk) which forms major part of beef supply in India. For small farmers, this is the money they use to buy next cow. In fact, beef consumption in India helps reduce methane emission, because they remove such cattle from population, which otherwise will continue to emit it. Point is, dairy farms are major culprits. If anybody genuinely cares about this issue, the best way is reverse "White revolution" and promote reduction milk consumption.
@@anwarmi2000 fascinating context, thanks!
I’d argue simply removing beef from fast food would drastically improve emissions as a first step.
So it turns out those Chick-fil-a cows were onto something...
Yeah but ask yourself, “would people/companies want that?” A company’s main goal is to make money, and if let’s say McDonalds suddenly decided that they would stop selling beef products (Quarter pounders, Big Macs, etc), they lost a lot of their selling point. People would stop buying their food and you know, McDonald’s would lose money. It’s just not that simple.
@@rinhayashi7685 I think people eat beef because it is offered and just makes a positive feedback loop
That's exactly why education is required. Once you've educated the public, more and more people will avoid beef and the beef burgers in McDonald's would lose market share, making them consider more alternative options. It doesn't take much, if everyone watching this video skips out on beef for something else, there will be a dent in McDonald's P/L statement every year and they will change the menu.
Christopher Chew even if the public was educated on such matters, would people even want to change? A lot of people enjoy McDonald’s and even if they were educated on this, they probably wouldn’t care too much. Even after this video, I don’t think I would ever completely cut out beef from my life. It’s too good.
Vox: "...It's the worst thing to eat during climate change, this is Beef"
Hindus: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
Edit: thanks for 600 likes and I have started a huge arguement lol
Hindus don't eat beef, yes. They rear cattle for milk etc. and that's enough for climate change.
@@MadhuSudhan014 Milk doesnt score high on Carbon emission chart, dear southern friend of mine!
Indians still have enormous amounts of cattle. They use them for other purposes but the contribution to climate change is the same
Allow us to introduce the irony of indian Hindu.
Don't eat beef.. but one of the biggest exporters.. contributing equally if not more to climate change.
@@nabilhuda4708 Actually all Beef exporters are predominantly Muslim or Christian aka parts of Kerala, UP, etc.
Sería interesante también que publicaran los links a los estudios que respalden los datos mostrados en el vídeo.
Beef is banned in many states of India. Although cows are still used for milk products. I don't know whether that reduces carbon footprint or not.
India is still housing heaps of cows for dairy products and rituals. they are no better just because they have a different use for them sadly
Yes, the cow is used only for milk in India but in western countries, it is also used as beef. Just like she said we can't completely remove the carbon emission done by our food but can reduce it. So now maybe you can understand the problem.
*Vox:* We are bored at home. Let's build some graphs in real life.
@Bob Smith then you are worse than trash. Sitting inside your home doing nothing. Commenting negativity.
Vox creativity 101
It pains me to see that the beautiful Amazon forest is being cut down for agricultural purposes and snatching away the homes of thousands of indigenous plants, insects, animals, birds, etc.
and humans! they are losing their homelands and some of them are being murdered by foresters and ranchers.
boohoo
Sadly the farmers have to because Brazil’s president isn’t doing anything about it.
@@2kmichaeljordan438 the farmers have to murder people?? what??
R M. No, destroy the forest
Brazilian Beef = Bad. (Because of huge land use change and intensive farming practices)
In the UK cattle are mostly farmed on marginal land which is unsuitable for crop farming. By feeding cows by grazing in pastures, with winter feed made from human crop food by-products, UK beef farming can actually capture CO2 by building soil volume. As for direct animal gas emissions, there are hundreds of millions of ruminants and other gas producing animals in the world and there have always been that many, even in prehistoric times. Buy well farmed, local beef and you also eliminate the distribution emissions! So ...
UK Beef = Good.
Rice produces methane gasses at a pretty large rate, its worse than what its portrayed as in this graph.
Hindus: We banned beef before it was cool
Environmentalists: Farming them for milk is also not recommended
Good point!
Environmentalists:
Farming Humans is also not safe for earth.
Philosophers and scientists: some Humans are most cunning and deadliest animals on earth.
@Vishwas Singh How does that make a difference on cow's digestion process ?
Just curious.
. A cow produces milk almost through out her lifetime, unlike beef which is just one time. So the amount of cows required to supply milk to entire world would be microscopic compared to the number of cows required to feed the meat eaters.
@@UpenShenoy Valid point.
I think milk had a lot lesser carbon footprint than beef but wanted to know the figure for 1 KG of milk as well.
No new information here but delivered well.
Whoa there Smartypants
@@samuelsanguino8422 Lol
There’s never new information. Vox does not make primary research
love how
It’s amazing they can convince people it’s beef and cows that are the issue, not the resorts, huge malls or private jets. Not the extreme Amazon deliveries of anything that companies profit off of smh. The don’t 🤔 think of any of this when they build a new restaurant that sells beef or late supermarkets.
This video is gonna get millions of views but the majority is going to do nothing with this knowledge
Cause it tastes good
It's won't cross 500k
TLDR: McDonalds is destroying the planet.
You can simply order Filet-o-Fish at McDonalds.
And destroying human body
ShoLKAN Socialist edgyboi detected
Nah, it's us. The demand
Here in malaysia, mcdonalds offer 2 type of chicken burgers.
It was interesting that among the things we could practice, changing our eating habits would have a greater impact on greenhouse gas reduction
Forget beef most people I know haven't even tasted chicken in life
lol
Me too
That's why India's pollution is not because of Agriculture and ironically most of the rural population does farming in our country. It is mostly because of industrial pollution and Tourism Industry and poor waste management. If we ace this, our country can be cleaner than most of Europe and America
chicken is the most cruel meat to eat.
@@karthikburli3052 fully agreed
You dont have to completely quit beef. If everyone reduces their intake a little, it will make a big difference. People forget that we need more people making little changes rather than fewer people switching up their whole lifestyle. If you want to help, don't let "quitting" certain things be the reason against helping. Just reduce your intake
I love meat. Beef was common in my diet until last January when I started my vegetarian diet. Surprisingly, I didn't miss eating meat at all. Of course, you have to plan what you need to eat. But so far, I'm doing and feeling amazing.
My Name hey that’s great I don’t eat much beef anymore but I do still eat chicken and fish.
We can most certainly keep poultry looking at this chart we just need to have right policies and regulations put in place to lower the land usage change.
Good for you brother ! That's what is all about. Cheers
Yogi Adityanath liked the video
Can we appreciate this lady for making that graph out of flipping tape👏🏽👏🏽
I'm kind of in the middle on climate, I recycle a lot, think about energy use and stuff like that but I love meat too much to give it up. But this video really gives good advice on why to reduce or stop beef eating, and I will now strive to avoid beef wherever I can. It probably won't be every time but I'll do chicken burgers and pork in the chili and stuff like that, and of course look at good meatless dishes.
People dont have to become vegans but if we just reduced meat consumption from 7 days a week to 3 days a week (especially cutting down on beef) we would massively cut down on carbon emissions.
Very sensible, I agree.
I did the switch in back in January and I am surprised how quickly it was to transition - mainly because there are SO many good options out there. Are they AS tasty as beef? No way, but a plant-based or pork burger does hit the spot when cravings arise. Enjoy!
you can also pay attention to where your beef comes from, buy locally, pasture raised. it costs more because it's worth more. a national meat shortage is a great time to try out some new vegetarian recipes, might surprise yourself!
welp the world is lucky to have citizens like you
Vox: “Consider cutting out beef”
*Chickfila has entered the chat*
Switching climate change for pandemics. Sounds great.
Not gonna happen. Just lessen beef and add more ants!
Chick fil a is homophobic tho.... and their styrofoam cups are really wasteful too :" |
The amount of research and work that went into this 4:38 video... Sheesh!
Yet, they missed so much...
ZFG Jerky I know! They should spend more time actually doing research on their topic. You SHOULD eat beef
@@troyt6532 And why exactly is that, Einstein?
x0RRY Videos like this hurt the beef industry. Livestock raisers already have a hard time making money off of live meat the way it is. Anyway, agriculture is an extremely complex process and I don’t expect you or this video to completely understand the entire thing. The video mostly talked about farming beef in the rainforests without mentioning livestock raising in the United States or other parts of the world where we have hilly prairies with rock patches and varying climates that cannot be used to grow crops with current agricultural technology. They actually believe that we could convert all areas used for cattle into rice fields and such when this simply isn’t the case. In fact, cultivating native grasses to make way for other crops negatively impacts the environment. There are certain methods of raising beef that take carbon out of the air but I won’t go into detail. As you know, cattle produce manure. This is a far better alternative for fertilizer than the synthetic chemicals used otherwise. Vox is made up of city people and they don’t care about agriculture or the folks that bust their backs to feed a growing population of unthankful people.
If you read all that, thanks.
@@troyt6532 While you make some good points, the beef industry and livestock raisers should never be a priority for decisions which are nessecary for our planet so survive.
Yes, you can produce beef in a more environmentally friendly way, but at the end of the day, the population grows and grows. As people in 3rd World countries get richer, they also want more meat. And this demand will not be satisfied with cattle from otherwise unusuable hills. The long term goal HAS to be, to drastically reduce our consumption of beef.
The music and editing for this was so well done. Bravo.
I went vegetarian at the beginning of the year because I wanted to help the environment. Definitely not going back.
Good step! Even better would be going all the way to vegan (dairy is still a huge emitter! Eggs not so much, but still bad enough.) But good on you~
I saw this from a another TH-cam reply but you can Likely stay vegan for 60 more years due to bad farming practices, like adding things that make the plant grow faster. There white oak pastures that take more carbon out than going into the atmosphere. So it could somehow be better to be a meat eater. It also tastes SOOOOO much better! I’m not trying to stop you from going vegan. Do what you want to do! I don’t even know you!
Huh, you might wanna switch back, if you want I can tell you why
ZFG Jerky why
@@Clearbluetropical Vegetarian/Vegan Farming is unsustainable. Because farms will exclusively grow plants, that leads to soil degradation, the only to stop soil degradation is to rotate crops, with animals. While crop rotation does slow down soil degradation, it doesn't stop it, without using the right crop combination.
When they were showing the worst foods to consume I was just like please don't be pizza.
Vegan pizza!
@@marianoguy
Pizza without cheese?
@@kevintrang3007 pizza with vegan cheese
@@marianoguy Amy's has really good vegan pizza!
If the pizza is vegan, there is nothing you have to be worried about
Great video, information synthesis and graphic design
Yes. Cattle belch. But they are a part of a natural cycle whereby the net effect is neutral so long as you maintain soil health. Trees do store carbon, but so does soil. Not all land can be used for crops, nor should it be. Neither is the problematic use of chemical fertilizer inputs to massive industrial monocrop farming taken into account here. On top of that, meat from cattle actually upcycle nutrients that we as humans cannot get ourselves from grass due to the difference in our digestive system. Measuring per calorie is not as important as measuring per the composition of nutrients. We have a problem of over-eating junk, i.e. "empty calories". Advocating for some grazing to give way for wild nature and more wild life that can be hunted seems a valid proposition. I also don't think cutting down rain forest seems a good idea, so there are compromises that need to be taken. But humans can't really survive on plants and fruits. We are omnivores after all.
Not to mention that the number of cattle is not increasing, it’s decreasing (due to increased efficiency and reduced waste). Therefore, since methane doesn’t accumulate in the atmosphere like CO2, cattle cannot be causing an increase in methane - it’s mathematically impossible (unless cattle are growing giant methane glands !!!).
i havent eaten beef in literally 5 years since i learnt about its effects on the environment
The topic of beef production is way more complicated then how Vox is portraying it. The world agriculture society has found that we have around 60 years worth of harvest left due to the way we have degraded our soil due to poor farming practices such as monocultures where a single kind of crop is grown over and over again with the use of synthetic fertilises and sprays. I seriously encourage people to look up “white oak pastures” they are producing beef and other animal products with a carbon negative out put (which means they are taking more carbon out of the atmosphere then what they’re producing). sustainable agriculture is no longer good enough we need to move to a regenerative agriculture system which needs grazing animals.
@@happyhazza7184 Eating less meat is in the ppls direct power when they go to the supermarket. And there is so many mouths to feed (animals also eat) contributing to the monoculture problem
That's really awesome! It's great to see people adjust their habits when it's bad for the environment.
@@happyhazza7184 This right here, thank you for your insight. People are so quick to think that by individually limited their beef consumption that the problem will be solved, but that just means more waste from irresponsible producers who are trying to get them to buy regardless. The real change needs to come in the form of placing responsible agriculture practices over profit margins. This is a complex problem that needs to be solved by those who created it, not those who will suffer because of it. Couldn't agree more.
@@danielgomessilva8966 then if more people switched to vegan there would be many more mouths to feed and we'd have to slaughter all the animals anyway to stop them from eating the plants we need because otherwise they will reproduce and eat even more it's not as simple as don't eat meat the food industry is a lot more complicated than that
Would love to see one of these on water impact. Unfortunately, citrus and nuts are brutal on water supply
no where near as much live stock is required to drink.
@@waflletoast11 I dont have the numbers but some nuts are really inefficient when it comes water use. iirc almonds are notorious for requiring way more water for what little food source it produces.
Edit: 1 almond requires 1.1 gallons of water
@@Scottsdaleofficesteve You guys know that the water doesn't just disappear, right? It stays in the cycle.
Libelldrian I would educate yourself on the science of aquifers
Waffle - that may be true. But I’d like to see your sources. Hence why I think it would be awesome to see one of these on water use per food item/type
They will take your Burgers & BBQ's away, don't let them!
I don’t eat dead cows.
I can't completely cut beef out of my diet I just can't. I think one of the problems is essentially there's just too many people. We should stop handing out money to people that irresponsibly have children and can't afford them. The most people the better
Okay, so this graph shows the emissions per kg of food produced. It would be interesting to also see the graph per Calorie produced. I don't think the results would change that much but some foods are more Calorie-rich than others for the same amount of weight.
Yes! This would be much more helpful, as nuts and grains have many more calories per kg than beef, and can therefore feed more people per kg. Conversely, salad veggies have less calories per kg than beef. Coffee makes over a hundred shots per kg. The only items that are really comparable on this chart are beef, pork, and chicken, which all have similar mid-range calorie densities.
Yep that would be a rational way of doing it, but the sensationalist hype machine called social media does not work that way!
Janos Kurko uhh ok-- beef May look even worse if they did it by calorie.
It's Vox, what do you expect
Of course, it isn't that simple, many of the low calorie foodstuffs we eat (vegetables for instance) are an important source of vitamins, minerals, etc.
im too poor to afford beef so ive done my part
Thank u so much for these informations 🙏
Makes sense why our culture forbids eating beef.
No, your culture believes your Great Grandfather came back as a cow ...
Emissions per calorie would be good to see too.
Meat and dairy are still the biggest polluters when compared by calories or protein value
They should talk about antibiotic resistance from agriculture because it’s going to be a huge issue.
all living being expends energy in order to grow, the conversion efficiency will be in favor of plant-based foods most of the time. basically you'll have to feed an animal more calories to produce equal amount of calorie.
Exactly, or calorie per square foot of land.
Just to make things clear, I dont eat beef . I know it should be not eaten much . I just wanted to see all factors like:Emissions per calorie, Calorie per m2, calorie per time taken for caring them ..... that stuff to just know which plant is good. For FUN and KNOWLEDGE
to people freaking out over coffee and chocolate, this chart is per kg so if this chart were per serving, they would probs be much lower
Simple, include a “Cow tax” which should be equal to the percentage of emissions.
So a 60% tax would do
Right
Not just beef. Add it to all food, and reduce the taxes on all foods by an equal amount. That would make "green" foods cheaper and "black" foods more expensive.
Tax people that have more than 2 kids ...
A request. I shared your video with friends and they made a good point. What numbers did you use to create the chart and where did you come up with the numbers you put together to create this chart?
I’m glad that information like this is slowly becoming “mainstream” and of importance.
Raising cows for their milk and therefore consuming any dairy products is also a huge contributor to climate change for all reasons explained in the video.
Be more conscious of what you eat, there are plenty of alternatives that are healthier and taste the same if not better.
Put common sense first and taste second.
If you want more information on this topic just watch Cowspiracy documentary.
I feel like this goes double for people privileged enough to think about what they want to eat, lots of people base their food choice on economic reason instead of taste or even environmental reason
Eating leef beef or things derived from it means more green gas from other things
@@ImYourHucklebery117 Still less than beef per kcal though
The point being, is our overconsumption of beef and dairy product that is the problem. We’re not even meant to consume dairy products originally.
martypython Same could be said for a huge amount of what we eat, kind of irrelevant
Vox: "Don't eat beef"
Me: Well I've been allergic since '01, so I've done my bit.
Did you become allergic via this tick bite thing? (if you don't mind me asking)
@@TheFeldhamster No, thank God. I live in the UK so we had a major foot and mouth outbreak so my family stopped consuming beef. So I now no longer have the enzymes or gut bacteria to digest it.
It was um... fun finding that out.
@@KaylaSen TLDR: People add meat back into their diets too quickly, and it makes them sick because they have to build the correct enzymes back up.
While I cannot know for certain, I do not think you are actually allergic to beef. I'm a vegetarian, I have been since I was three years old, so I haven't eaten any meat or fish for a solid amount of time. And of course, because of this, my body doesn't produce enough enzymes and stuff to actually process and digest meat. Thus if I tried eating a hamburger right now, I'd end up extremely sick. However, there have been a number of vegetarians and vegans who at one point stop being vegetarian/vegan. They also end up being sick if they don't GRADUALLY add meat back into their diet. Your body, unless you are truly allergic, still has those enzymes to digest meat, just not enough of them by a long shot, and thus you'll end up making yourself sick. So people trying to get back into eating meat, have to do it very gradually, its a process because you are basically teaching your body how to digest meat again. Of course, I can't know if you are truly allergic or not, nor are you required to actually go and eat meat again, but I've seen enough people think they are allergic to meat when they really are just adding it into their diet too quickly.
@@screamingquitealot I would agree with you. An "allergy" is an immune response.
Sounds like you have beef intolerance, rather than a true allergy to beef.
Wow- Thanks for the Malayalam subtitles 😂😂😂
Went to see if you had the graphs linked to look at in better detail, but I ended up watching all the links of burping animals 🤣🤣🤣
Would love to see a future Vox video comparing the impact of beef alternatives like Beyond Meat or Impossible Burger to see if those alternatives are much lower climate impact
Plant based burgers like the impossible and beyond burger use around 95% less water, land and around 90% lower emissions from what I remember
Victor Dalloz on the surface that’s what I’d expect too, however factors like the manufacturing/laboratory process and the additional chemicals used may have a larger impact. I’m curious what the net comparison would be.
Noah Hayes definitely not even close to diary/ beef in my opinion.
Noah Hayes> manufacturing/laboratory process and the additional chemicals may have a larger impact
It's like comparing electric cars to ICE cars. (1) The differences are still a wide chasm, (2) the alternatives are very new, so they're still inefficient; once production ramps up, economies of scale will kick in and efficiencies will shoot up.
- that’s true. There is still long way to go.
U know u could have saved so many papers if u have used ur laptop for this amazing presentation!
please also talk about the environmental destruction caused by artificial fertilizers and the greenhouse gases that are produced during production.
Really creative way of doing the graph!
*when you don't eat beef or drink coffee but you're a chocolate addict*
👀
I can live without beef but *not chocolate*
In absolute numbers your individual coffee or chocolate consumption doesn't make a huge difference, because it's not even close to the number of kilogramms of other foods like cheese you consume.
If you have avaliable fair trade chocolate that will be much better, as choclate itself isn't as harmful as the mainstream industry that chooses to grow it it a way that causes deforestation. Also dark chocolate is friendlier to the envirnoment as it avoids dairy (cows)
What do you mean by being a chocolate addict? Do you chow down straight dark chocolate bars? Or just eat alot of chocolate based candy like twix and kit-kats.
@@nelzelpher2088 I eat straight chocolate every day, except when I don't have it at my house. Sometimes it's a bar, other times it's half.
BJP sponsored video 😂 (Indians will get the joke!)
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Muslims will cry now.
Can you plan citrus and olive anywhere you want? Grass can.
They do not cut down trees for beef as nearly as much for Mall, car park and guess plant like citrus and Olive.
Olive groves last for centuries. Some olive trees in Palestine are 2,000 years old.
Is there a way to apply taxes on products based on the different factors you have explained above so as to reduce the carbon emissions and then spend the money generated into environmentally friendly projects
I see people have a hard time accepting vegans do something right and important
Nothing can last forever even our precious little planet. So make the most of life’s bounty and just enjoy every bit of it while it last. All things, everything happening, good or bad comes to an end.
@@marvyncruz2775 Live life to the fullest yeah sure, but without breeding, enslaving, and torturing others... live and let live, that's your'e whole moto so actually follow it...
@BLUeeeee1PKeeeeeR the reason I said good or bad, unless you didn’t read?? You seem to dream of universe where no bad things would ever happen. Hmm 🤔 U maybe right... in our reality in the universe we live in; both good and bad exist but there maybe an alternate reality where good only exist and maybe another alternate reality where bad things only exist. Well I hope someday you can make your dreams come true and find a way to travel to your ideal reality where only good things would ever happen.
Wanderclutch I don’t dream of a world where no “bad” things happen, you sound very naive saying “good” and “bad.” What even is “good” and “bad” other than an arbitrary moral definition you’ve made in your own head... what I’m saying is living life to the fullest is no justification to directly cause harm and suffering to others... what if I thoroughly enjoy enslaving, murdering and eating children and if I were to not do so I would not be living my life the fullest... am I all of a sudden justified to do this just because good and bad things happen and everything has to come to an end?? No obviously not because “live your life to the fullest” is not a valid justification to harm and cause suffering to others...
Wanderclutch Saying “Bad things happen” isn’t a justification and neither is “live life to the fullest” when it comes to the life of another being and exploitation of billions of animals. You are selfish.
I gave up beef years ago because it felt like a stone going through my intestines.
It is)
@@zzared You're probably right! I don't miss it!
@@nacarreira777 may be you ate of bones
om the bones on steak is huge. not possible unless she mistook it for meat (not possible) or she’s blind
@@Omprakash-fd2pc Nope...just the meat. I obviously couldn't break it down properly hence why it felt like a stone going through.
Now I know what Bart Simpson meant when he said “Don’t have a cow, man!”
I actually enjoyed this... thanks, given me lots to think about...
*PALM. OIL.*
FORGETTA BOUT IT.
DON'T TOUCH THAT STUFF IF YA CAN.
sure. don't use palm oil from deforested Asian lands, but use soybean and corn oil from deforested US lands)
But it is in literally every shampoo, Nutella and many other foods
Why? In my country we use it regularly.
And while you are at it please also don't touch all the stuff which much much worse for the climate and environment. (See chart above.)
It's important to think about what the alternative should be. A lot of oil productions are formed by huge swaths of monocultures that require a lot of land. And if the palm oil farmers simply switch to a different crop and still continue deforesting, it's not gonna help at all.
I understand beef can be more wasteful, just wondering if the 28% reduction goal takes into account an increase in chicken, pork, and lamb production?
I think that is the only mis-step in an otherwise great video. It seems to me that the 28% is the average % of a person's emissions that are due to food production. If that's the case, then the only way to achieve 28% reduction is to not eat anything! Obviously this is impossible. From memory, I think that a vegan diet only emits about 30-35% of a beef-heavy diet (don't quote me), if that helps? So if I'm right you could probably knock 10-20% off your personal emissions, depending on how much beef you eat and your other personal lifestyle factors.
Pork is bad.... And prohibited...
3:06 You forgot to mention that most cropland is used to feed livestock.
I guess it boils down to if you see the world as a resource to be harvested or a place we live that we should look after.
Something to note is that this is per KG of product. Some foods have much higher amounts of calories than others per weight so people eat less to get the same nutrition.
Yeah I noticed they purposely left out how many calories are in that kg of food.
Vox: stop eating beef.
Americans with their steaks: No, I don't think I will.
I'm an American and I'm NOT .
Next they’ll realize how crops & vegs destroying soil by an inch each minute
Grazing on grasslands is better than burning. America has a lot of grasslands, therefor beef is good for America (up to a certain point which we have in fact exceeded)
Yeap. The stubborness of people.
I don't think we should get rid of beef completely, because I mean, there would be alot of problems with that such as culture, finance & diet but maybe if we made beef a luxury product.
Like, get rid of mass produced cheap beef like McDonalds
I agreed with most of this. However, saying that nuts, olive oil etc has negative land use emissions due to reforesting land is wrong. You've changed the natural habitat to make way for something else, doesn't matter if that's crops or animals.
Excellent. Very important topic, in a concisive video.
It scares me that people didn't know this
People know, they just didn't care.... Including me (yeah im not proud)
Ofc we know what mass is required fo eat caws / produce meet, but I really don’t care... Cause Im 100% sure that my grandpa’s farm doesn’t pollutes nature or endangers climate.
It scares me that little who think that drinking cow milk and eating milk products means that the cows stop farting and therefore stop contributing to global warming
the purpose of not purchasing something is so that demand goes down and therefore less animals are bred for that purpose, and so yeah, less emissions are created.
Would have liked to see avocado in the mix.
Are the graphics comparision made by a kilogram of product or by the total of product in the world?
Nepal, where beef is banned:
Laughs
Please give this lady a laptop
Same why go through so much trouble it doesn't make any semse
shubham kakkad perhaps she was trying to make a point? Do you ask to be spoon-fed for everything you consume?
@@smallpatatu I found the rustic style more engaging
But it’s so edgy
Everyone replying to this thinking the comment was serious lol
Thanks to all the vegans out there
Makin the sacrifice we won't make 😅
Thank you for your service.
Beautifully clear and coherent
does this include dairy?
or does the breed that is used for milk have different kind of metabolic system
also, is there ways to just change up the diet to solve the problem?