• Food & beverages

    • Your choice of what to eat and drink has global consequences. Here is a brief introduction to some of the things that are going on 'behind the scenes'.

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    • Food_and_beverages

    • Meat

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    • tons eaten
    • globally, this year

    • Water use in meat production

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    • tons used
    • globally, this year

    • Chocolate

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    • tons eaten
    • globally, this year

    • Organic products

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    • US dollars spent
    • globally, this year

    • Food wasted

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    • tons of food lost or wasted
    • globally, this year

    • Coffee

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    • bags produced
    • globally, this year

    • Aluminium cans

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    • cans consumed
    • globally, this year

    • Recycled aluminium cans

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    • cans recycled
    • globally, this year

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Something to consider

Meat has a much higher “energy footprint” than any other food. It takes 75 times more energy to produce meat than corn. And it takes an area of vegetation 7 times the size of the EU to produce food for the cattle and other livestock animals in Europe.

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