Eggs vs Rice: carbon footprint
Eggs4.67kg CO₂e / kg
vs
Rice4.45kg CO₂e / kg
Eggs or Rice? Here's what each one costs the climate, measured per kilo over its whole life.
Eggs runs about 4.67 kg CO₂e a kilo. Rice runs 4.45.
It's close. Eggs and Rice land in roughly the same place.
Eggs: Middling. Hens eat feed, but there's no methane belch, so eggs sit well below beef.
Rice: Modest. Fertiliser, the field itself, and a bit of milling.
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.