Dark chocolate vs Pork: carbon footprint
Dark chocolate or Pork? 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. Pork runs 12.31.
Dark chocolate is the heavier choice, about 3.8× Pork.
Swap Dark chocolate for Pork and you cut about 34.34 kg a kilo, near 74% off.
Per kilo, that gap is a 201 km drive in a diesel car.
Dark chocolate: Cocoa is tied to deforestation, so a chocolate bar hides a surprisingly heavy footprint.
Pork: 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.