Tofu vs Wine: carbon footprint
Tofu3.16kg CO₂e / kg
vs
Wine1.79kg CO₂e / kg
Tofu or Wine? Here's what each one costs the climate, measured per kilo over its whole life.
Tofu runs about 3.16 kg CO₂e a kilo. Wine runs 1.79.
Tofu is the heavier choice, about 1.8× Wine.
Swap Tofu for Wine and you cut about 1.37 kg a kilo, near 43% off.
Per kilo, that gap is a 8 km drive in a diesel car.
Tofu: Tofu and soy milk hand you protein at a fraction of beef's footprint. The swap that actually moves the needle.
Wine: Comes from growing and processing the crop, plus whatever it ships in.
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.