Producing red meat requires far more land compared to other meat products. It takes 326 square meters to produce just one kilogram of beef (beef herd), compared to 12 square meters to produce a kilogram of poultry meat. It is not just land that is heavily impacted by beef. Greenhouse gas emissions from beef production are far higher than other food products, with one kilogram producing the equivalent 60 kilograms of carbon dioxide .
Land used to produce one kilogram of food product as of 2018, by type
(in square meters per kilogram)
Characteristic
Land use per kilogram of food product in square meters
* Data represents the global average land use of food products based on a large meta-analysis of food production covering 38,700 commercially viable farms in 119 countries.
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OWID, & Expert(s) (Poore, J & Nemecek, T). (January 1, 2020). Land used to produce one kilogram of food product as of 2018, by type (in square meters per kilogram) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 30, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1179708/land-use-per-kilogram-of-food-product/
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