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Re:Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstr... by morsch on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:19PM (#26986194)
They get 5.3 kg CO2eq for asparagus because they are looking at asparagus air shipped from Peru. Of course that's terrible. Don't buy fruits and vegetables shipped via air.

If you buy locally grown asparagus -- where I live, that means around four weeks every year -- it's fine.

Stuff that gets put on a boat is in-between; no idea if that's viable for asparagus, it never occured to me to buy it out of season.

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Re:Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstr... by maccard on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:46PM (#27017742)
The links I shared have a chart breaking down the co2 cost by land usage, transport, feeding and even the worst vegetables transported the farthest have an order of magnitude less of an impact than local beef.
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