Where does this food come from?

Beef production is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Every kilogram of beef produced creates greenhouse gasses equivalent to 99.48 kg of CO₂.

It takes about 1800 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef.

Beef production is the largest land user per unit output of all livestock products.

Beef production uses about 60% of the world's agricultural land, but beef only makes up about 2% of the world's calories.

It takes about 100 times more land to produce a kilocalorie of beef than plant-based alternatives. It takes 16 pounds of grain to make one pound of beef.

Beef production efficiency has improved in the past 50 years. In the US, the same amount of beef is produced with 67% of the land.

Livestock production—primarily cows—produces 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The fishing industry is making the ocean more vulnerable to climate change and less capable of mitigating its effects.

Fishing vessels also emit a lot of greenhouse gases by burning fuel to power their engines and drag their massive nets.

This is especially true for supertrawlers, the behemoths of the fishing fleet.

The fishing industry uses a lot of water. Here's some information about water use in the fishing industry:

• Seafood Processing:

  2–12 cubic mete of water per ton of seafood

• Fish Farming:

  8 tons of water per ton of fish

• Shrimp Production:

  Up to ten times more water than fish

• Conventional Land-Based Ponds:

  45,000 liters per kilogram of fish

• Intensive Pond Agriculture

  2,700 liters per kilogram of fish

• Raceways Without Mechanical Aeration

  Up to 100 cubic meters per kilogram of fish

• Brine for Smoking Salmon:

  20 gallons of brine at 15.8% salt

Fish farming is typically more land efficient than beef production.

When too many fish are taken out of the ocean it creates an imbalance that can erode the food web and lead to a loss of other important marine life, including vulnerable species like sea turtles and corals.