Is your lunch destroying the planet?

[andrewducker]

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[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Why would milk be so much lower than beef? Some beef is actually grass-fed (ie out on a range), but milk cows have to stay close to the barn (if allowed out at all).

[andrewducker]

Cows produce massively more milk over their lifespan than they do beef?

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say - milk yields for intensive dairy cows are really high these days.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

So? The cost of raising a calf to adulthood has longer to amortize as a milk cow, is that what you mean?

Maybe we should be measuring in grams of protein.

[andrewducker]

The diagram doesn't have cost in it at all...

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

The cost in emissions, I mean. Yanno, what the chart shows.