Chicken vs Pork: carbon footprint
Chicken9.87kg CO₂e / kg
vs
Pork12.31kg CO₂e / kg
Chicken or Pork? Here's what each one costs the climate, measured per kilo over its whole life.
Chicken runs about 9.87 kg CO₂e a kilo. Pork runs 12.31.
It's close. Chicken and Pork land in roughly the same place.
Cows and sheep burp methane and need a lot of land and feed, which is why red meat towers over everything else here.
Per-kilo numbers skip portion size and how the food was farmed, so take them as the shape of things, not the last word.
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Figures from OWID / Poore & Nemecek 2018, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.