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I'm not pointing fingers at other consumers, I'm just pointing out the sort of things that have impact. I eat out regularly, I have a transcontinental flight pl
by tinco 3y ago
I'm not pointing fingers at other consumers, I'm just pointing out the sort of things that have impact. I eat out regularly, I have a transcontinental flight planned for a holiday with my family this year. And I'm sure I've bought products that have had less than ideal CO2 footprint.
Industry and consumers will continue these destructive practices until they're forced to not engage in them.
By the way, not that it's relevant. But the locally produced tomatoes that I buy in the super market have a way higher CO2 footprint than your shrimp that have been shipped to Malaysia and back. But that might be a quirk of the country I'm in.
edit: eh unless the shrimp have been cultured in heated pools, that might be even worse than our heated tomato farms.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoWell, Transcontinental flight, sure. But your point about carbon footprint of tomato vs shrimp perfectly ullustrates that the issue is too complex to lay on the consumer. You can't be expected to do hours of research on every grocery item you buy. And most people don't even have the required knowledge for this kind of analysis. And the companies mislead consumer on purpose. Recently relatives sent me a viseo which claims avocados are terrible because they need much more nutrients per kilo of product than tomato does. Which is not a reasonable comparison because avocado has fats and calories and tomato is mostly water. But they were convinced by this misinformation. So I think the responsibility lies with the industry first, and consumer second.