Going vegetarian would only cut it if you stayed clear of dairy. Gram for gram it's better to eat chicken than cheese for the climate.

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softwaredoug 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

My research seems to indicate its about on-par with chicken. IE a chicken filet is about the carbon impact of 8oz of milk.

And it seems here its about 1/4 carbon per kg of food as beef:

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

	▲	bhelkey 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>> Gram for gram it's better to eat chicken than cheese for the climate. reply >IE a chicken filet is about the carbon impact of 8oz of milk. They said cheese not milk. Note that it takes more than 1 unit of milk to produce 1 unit of cheese. From this source I found, they estimate ~10 input units of milk per output unit of cheese [1]. Assuming both of these is true, and assuming that the cheese making process produces no carbon, then a chicken filet would have the same carbon impact as .8oz of cheese or roughly a single slice of cheese. The cheese making process does produce carbon (e.g. heating the milk) but it also produces whey as a valuable byproduct. [1] https://pubs.nmsu.edu/_e/E216/

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vouaobrasil 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I switched to fortified soy milk and haven't looked back. Milk is tasty but soy has less sugar as well and now I prefer it. Cheese is harder to make a substitute but eating it 1-2 per year satisfies my craving.