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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2026 01:52:06 JST Information Is Beautiful

The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond
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  Environmental Impacts of Food Production
  
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  What are the environmental impacts of food production? How do we reduce the impacts of agriculture on the environment?
2. An infographic titled “The land footprint of food” comparing how much land area in square meters is required to produce one kilogram of different foods. The graphic uses a perspective scene divided into two halves, with animal based foods on the left and plant based foods on the right, each illustrated with small icons like cows, sheep, trees, crops, and a tractor casting long shadows across a green field. On the left, animal products occupy much larger areas, with beef shown as the most land intensive at the top, followed by lamb, cheese, and pork, then poultry, eggs, and milk, each requiring progressively less land but still far more than plant foods. On the right, plant based foods are shown using significantly smaller plots, including grains, vegetables, fruits, and nuts, with items like wheat, potatoes, and apples requiring comparatively little land per kilogram. The visual contrast emphasizes that producing animal based foods generally uses far more land than plant based foods, with the scale of the plots shrinking dramatically from left to right. A small note cites data from studies on global food systems and environmental impact.
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  wortezimmer (wortezimmer@ruhr.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2026 07:42:56 JST wortezimmer
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  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-kcal-poore
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  SignalEleven (signaleleven@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2026 07:43:04 JST SignalEleven
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  @Kir @infobeautiful yeah. Maybe calories would be a better metric, if the goal is to compare (but that would make coffee meaningless). Hard to capture all in a single image.
  
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  Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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  Kir (kir@mastodon.uno)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2026 07:43:05 JST Kir
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  @infobeautiful I'm not against the message, but I don't think this particular infographic works really well.
  A kg. of, say, carrots is in no way comparable to kg. of coffee or beef when looking at calories and nutrients.
  So what's the message supposed to be?
  
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