• Nakrar@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      I’m sure shipping vast quantities of almonds and almond milk from places like California to the rest of the world produces almost no greenhouse gases /s

      Not to talk about the ecological damage it does to California due to the immense water consumption.

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          Per person or current polution rates? If this is a 1 to 10 comparison, having twice as much gasses produced doesn’t mean much.

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            1 year ago

            The chart says those values are what it takes to produce one liter of each milk.

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              So we are talking about producing roughly 580 calories of almond milk vs producing 2400 calories of cow milk.

              So in terms of calories/pollution rate, we are talking about a scale of 1:2 in favor of cow milk efficiency.

              Meaning in terms of keeping people fed as a rate of efficiency in pollution, cow milk is twice as efficient.

              Does that math add up? feel free to check me.

              Edit: doubled the calories in an unsweetened silk almond milk for almond milk calorie count

              Used a local brand of whole milk that based on a short Google search seems pretty standard.

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          Yes that neglects the transport though. Cow milk can PE produced locally almost everywhere. Cow milk I buy here was produced maybe 10km away from me. Almond milk was transported 5000+ km.