Dark chocolate vs Eggs: carbon footprint
Dark chocolate or Eggs? Here's what each one costs the climate, measured per kilo over its whole life.
Dark chocolate runs about 46.65 kg CO₂e a kilo. Eggs runs 4.67.
Dark chocolate is the heavier choice, about 10.0× Eggs.
Swap Dark chocolate for Eggs and you cut about 41.98 kg a kilo, near 90% off.
Per kilo, that gap is a 246 km drive in a diesel car.
Dark chocolate: Cocoa is tied to deforestation, so a chocolate bar hides a surprisingly heavy footprint.
Eggs: Middling. Hens eat feed, but there's no methane belch, so eggs sit well below beef.
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.