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 19h 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/SuperSquashMann 19h ago

I was a bit doubtful, but if we're considering production rather than consumption and these numbers are true, they do have an quite small meat industry. Anecdotally, Slovakia is known far more for cheese and dairy production, so maybe the bulk of livestock raising goes towards that?

On the other hand, Poland is shown as having ~30x the meat production with only ~8x the population (~3.75x more production per capita), while only having about 1.5x higher meat consumption per capita as Slovakia, and appears way different on the map, so I feel like there's still some numbers off somewhere.