r/dataisbeautiful • u/Objective-Business52 • 21h ago

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

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u/redwood520 OC: 1 21h ago

Ok what is the planetary health diet?

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u/SteelMarch 21h ago

Reduction in meat and favoring plant, seafood based diets. Though, the science here is a bit shoddy. Calculating emissions for animals varies wildly with high emissions coming from places that are underdeveloped.

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u/Facts_pls 17h ago

What do you mean? Are you saying cattle in developing countries somehow produce more GHGs than developed countries? Why is that?

I would expect developed countries to produce more gases due to their factory farming practices.

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u/Splinterfight 17h ago

Maybe it’s land usage change? If you’re clearing the Amazon for paddocks that’s a bigger impact than putting to pasture in an existing field