Friday Favorites: Which Foods and Diets Have the Lowest Carbon Footprint?

How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause measured in miles driven or lightbulb hour equivalents?

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68 Risposte a “Friday Favorites: Which Foods and Diets Have the Lowest Carbon Footprint?”

  1. Carbon dioxide is plant food, not a pollutant. It’s detrimental to both plant and human health to reduce the amount of atmospheric CO2.
    You didn’t really think multinational mega corporations or elite clubs like the UN actually care about you or the planet, did you? This isn’t science, it’s lunacy.

  2. Dr. Greger, the whole carbon footprint thing is a hoax, and I am so disappointed that you wasted your intelligence on this video. Stick with the nutrition, please.

  3. Dr “plants” doesn’t realise that plants are carbon-based and need C02 to survive? Seriously wondering why I ever trusted this guy?! 🤦‍♂️

  4. Listen to George Carlin on environmentalists trying to "save" the planet. Research the military involvement in weather control going back to the 1950s. Consider what Dane Wigington's research shows about weather modification. Dr. Greger, your argument is on this topic is weak.

  5. It doesn't matter since "carbon" doesn't harm the earth or cause global warming. The correct question is what foods cause less harm to the actual environment (water/air/land)

  6. It's regrettable that this channel is becoming politicized. Climate change is a political viewpoint. We've only been studying weather patterns for 150 years. It's cyclical. Carbon dioxide is what plants breathe.

  7. Just out of curiousity what countries outside of the us? Not that it matters weather or not one believes in climate change if it doesn't change things they do, eg: carnivores who are aware climate change exists

  8. I live in a climate where i cant wear shorts 6 months out of the year due to colder temperatures, so I eat a high carbon footprint diet and live a high carbon output lifestyle in hopes that the weather gets a little bit nicer.

  9. Dr.Greger one of the rare channel that do not play by the agnotology book and trying to please people by hiding ugly truth.
    Carnist youtuber/journalists will close their eyes on such information as always. making ad temperantiam fallacy, muddying the water etc.
    The one health model also tell us that our individual health and carnism is connected. sad to say but fitness coaches, cooking chef, scientists etc are just not seeing even half of their own field properly and therefore not seeing the dignity of their proffession/oath.

  10. The crazy thing is….govt doesn’t need to mandate our food intake (which is only used by marketing and for political payoffs), we are smart enough to figure this out ourselves. AND save all those dollars the govt is throwing at our environment….
    This is not asking just for abstinence—-anything between ‘less’ and ‘abstinence’ benefits us and our planet.

  11. Well, Dr Greger, those behind the climate zealots providing all of this questionable "data" and "science" had better do a better job of providing the consumer with AFFORDABLE organic produce. Or run the risk of being labelled members, as some have suggested, of a Malthusian death cult. Aside from occasionally consuming a small amount of butter and cheese, I'm near vegan. I could very happily go completely vegan. Only for health reasons.

  12. This channel is a great source of information and inspiration. It has literally changed my life. This is the first video title that I haven't been excited about. All of the fear mongering and cult-like belief in this global warming hoax saddens me. But once believed, it is like a virus that infects the whole program of the heart and mind to the point where faithful adherents will change what they eat. This is sad self-bondage.

  13. Our planet is fucked because of humans. But thank you for keeping up the good fight and trying. I'm vegan and keep trying as well but get exhausted at trying to teach people not willing to learn. Our "leaders" in government have failed the human race and planet. Sigh

  14. You can‘t stay healthy in an unhealthy enviroment. The climate change the biggest risk for our life quality and health. We have to stop it now!

  15. Im not a dr or climatologist but I know that what i choose to eat can have an affect on others . This is a nutrition fact as well .
    Plus , the whole planet is connected .
    A complete ecosystem .

  16. While not negating the impacts of animal agriculture, I feel that it's important to note that these studies generally use traditional feed management rather than comparing to rotational grazing – especially when considering the reduction of tillage and resulting carbon capture.

  17. Yes the masses need to be woken up out of their denial and stupor! Thank you Dr Greger for your unstinting service to humanity.

  18. If you want to sell an idea, first find the individuals pain and then offer a solution.
    This can be health or finance related or maybe even parents worrying about their kids future.

    If you ask people about environment and nature, most will agree things need to be done.
    But most also feel it should not impact their lives, in terms of luxury and travel etc..

    Humans are an uncontrolled swarm of locusts and will only stop once the food runs out and there is nothing left.

    Don’t worry, nature has survived a meteor impact before. It just needs some time to heal.

  19. Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. … It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.
    Michael Greger quoting David BenatarPhD in agreement.

  20. With regenerative agriculture, it's a non-issue–since healthy soil sequesters atmospheric CO2, with enough farmers practicing it, we could hit "atmospheric CO2 goals" within 5 years.

  21. We can reduce co2 and methane emmisions and save the world but, we cannot be timid about it. The zebra, wilderbeast, elk, reindeer, buffalo and antelope herds must go, along with cattle. Africans will be upset, especially after we forbid them to eat meat, but no backing down, ever. It is for their own good.

  22. Bonjour docteur après avoir lu votre livre

    J'ai une interrogation au niveau de l'acide phytique dans les amandes

    faut t'il les trempe ou enlever la peau où les manger complets pour les laits végétal mille merci de m'apporte une réponse mille merci pour votre travail

    Tonio

  23. Even a six grader knows plants need water, sunlight and CO2. Plants use the energy from the sun to covert CO2 from the atmosphere into food through photosynthesis. More and more of our produce is grown in commercial greenhouses, and one of the first things any commercial greenhouse operator does is install a CO2 generator, to triple the amount of CO2. Most plants evolved during periods of significantly higher levels of CO2, so the current atmosphere is sub-optimal, not enough CO2 for optimal plant life. Just google "CO2 generator", you'll find pages of them. Loving whole plants but demonizing CO2 is the opposite of evidence based science. If you believe CO2 is a pollutant than you should stop breathing, since you'll emit about 800 pounds of it into the atmosphere each year by exhaling. If you hyperventilate the reason breathing into a paper bag is a quick solution is re-breathing your own exhaust quickly restores the CO2 levels in your bloodstream. Plants can't live without CO2, and neither can humans.

  24. Great video!❤ It could be so easy. Eating healthy and supporting the environment. By the way eating a plant based diet is so delicious. Thanks to Dr Greger I'm following a plant based diet for years now. I would never go back to meat and dairy. My health has improved dramatically. Highly can recommend to try it.

  25. How many animals die in Agriculture? Your green plants ain’t so green but they magically appear in your store shelf a day you feel green. Every frog, rabbit nest, migrating birds get nuked into oblivion.

  26. I put my food (cold beans with salt out of a can) sometimes with tomatoes out of a can in aluminium foil will this begin to leach into the food or does it depending on ingredients like spices I also make a bowl for my oats from alumiium folie and eat this with berries does that make the foil leach into my food and does that effect my health (hate and i am to tired for dishes.)…

  27. Great video. Its really sad how many people not only dont understand how humans are effecting climate change but that their best way to help is to adopt a vegan lifestyle.

  28. 0:42 I’ve been hearing the doomsday prediction my entire life!!! The results of all these predictions seems to create more funding to gov’t bureaucracy and their partner start up companies that only serve to promote more doomsday, sooner doomsday, and more gov’t bureaucracies!

    The only way to have proper dominion of the planet is to educate, inform, and partner with private organizations to make changes or inform better! Rather than influence, persuade, and manipulate to burden people and the economy only leading stagnant growth and less innovative technology. If any changes are promoted, if gov’t is required the your changes aren’t required!

  29. Has anyone thought that it isn't the animals causing co2 increase???? Maybe it is the way they are living in crowded areas!!!! Carbon…I am finding it hard to call it evil….I don't trust much these days!!!!!

  30. Fantastic video as always, Dr. Greger. It is our duty as Earthlings to reduce our footprint on an increasingly crowded planet. I loved seeing the low impact of legumes; beans can feed the world!

    Can you do one on the savings to the annual US healthcare bill from switching to plant-based eating? As Dr. Kim Williams rather provocatively has said, it is Americans' patriotic duty to eat healthier, for each of us to do our part in reducing the tremendous burden on our ailing healthcare system. We are one people, people! Not isolated individuals making food choices that impact only ourselves. If the masses begin to wake up to the virtues of plant-based eating—and practice healthier living—we will need fewer doctors and nurses (which we're already in short supply of) and our healthcare premiums will come down.

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