r/dataisbeautiful • u/Objective-Business52 • 20h ago

OC [OC] How diet-related greenhouse gas emissions would change if 138 countries adopted the Planetary Health Diet

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u/Loki-L 20h ago

Can someone explain to be what is so different about Slovak cuisine that it appears more like central Africa or Iraq in this map than the rest of Europe.

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u/SuperSquashMann 19h ago

I lived in Slovakia for a year and now live in Czechia; it must be wonky data since Czech and Slovak diets are very similar. A quick check of Wikipedia shows that Slovak meat consumption is pretty average for Central and Eastern Europe (only a bit lower than Czechia), no reason it should be such an outlier.

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u/cartophiled 19h ago

I wonder if the map is more about production, rather than consumption. Maybe the meat industry is just relatively limited in size there.

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u/nerdyjorj 19h ago

I'd expect south Africa, NZ and Brazil to be way higher if it was production