Eggs vs Farmed shrimp: carbon footprint
Eggs or Farmed shrimp? Here's what each one costs the climate, measured per kilo over its whole life.
Eggs runs about 4.67 kg CO₂e a kilo. Farmed shrimp runs 26.87.
Farmed shrimp is the heavier choice, about 5.8× Eggs.
Swap Farmed shrimp for Eggs and you cut about 22.2 kg a kilo, near 83% off.
Per kilo, that gap is a 130 km drive in a diesel car.
Eggs: Middling. Hens eat feed, but there's no methane belch, so eggs sit well below beef.
Farmed shrimp: Farmed fish and shrimp pay for feed, energy to run the ponds, and sometimes cleared mangroves.
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.