I had no idea that I was killing the planet.


A report published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology claims that white people’s eating habits are contributing more to climate change than their black and Latino counterparts.
Report authors concluded, using data on food production — use of water, land, production, and distribution — that white people’s diet causes more greenhouse gas emissions.

“Potatoes, beef, apples, and milk are some of the worst offenders,” the New York Post reported.

“The food pipeline — which includes its production, distribution, and waste — contributes significantly to climate change through the production of greenhouse gases and requires significant amounts of water and land, which also has environmental effects,” Joe Bozeman, a student at the University of Illinois who helped produce the report, said.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contributed to the report, providing data on more than 500 food groups and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) weighed in on individual diets.

The Post reported:

Data showed that whites produced an average of 680 kilograms of the CO2 each year, attributable to food and drink, whereas Latinx individuals produced 640 kilograms, and blacks 600.

They also found the diets of white people required 328,000 liters of water on average per year. Latinx used just 307,000 liters, and blacks 311,800. Both black and Latinx individuals used more land per capita with 1,770 and 1,710 square meters per year, respectively than white people with just 1,550. Nevertheless, white people still made the greatest overall contribution to climate change.

The underlying purpose of the study is ominous, calling for policies to address the findings.

“The study was undertaken to get a better understanding of the environmental impacts of the food consumption patterns of major demographic groups so that environmental policies designed to reduce negative impacts of food production could be drafted that take these differences into account,” a press release announcing the report said.

“If you are going to draft policies that may reduce the amount of land-intensive oranges, we need to think about other less resource-intensive sources of vitamin C,” Bozeman said. “It gets more complex as you look closely at the food pipeline and how different populations engage with it, but we are now starting to get a better understanding on these complex dynamics in such a way that we can begin to rationally take steps to improve environmental quality.”

The report Abstract stated, in part:

Our findings suggest that obtaining data with the intention of building consensus across sociodemographic lines overcomes barriers in the understanding phase, leading to increased social receptivity for many planning and managing phase processes. Specifically, we find that identifying and developing leaders who possess the cognitive and interpersonal capacity to manage many variables and stakeholders is key to assessing and selecting adaptation options in the planning phase.

We also propose using government programming to encourage environmentally friendly food purchasing behavior. Then, we discuss how our proposals could be used in adaptation feasibility and evaluation activities in the managing phase. In all, these findings facilitate the development of improved climate change adaptation and policy by satisfying the understanding phase of the climate change adaptation framework, establishing a cross‐disciplinary methodological approach to addressing socioecological problems, and providing useful FEW impact data for FEW nexus and climate change researchers.

“While the difference may not be enormous, these numbers are per individual, and when you add up all those individuals, it’s very clear that whites are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gases emitted as a result of their food choices,” Bozeman said.


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Dinner tonight. Porterhouse. Fuck 'em.

But if I eat Mexican or soul food I'm guilty of a cultural appropriation.

Good. As a responsible White person, I will continue eating my diet that contributes CO2 to the environment, thus stimulating the growth of more green plants.

(ArtieS, was that Porterhouse before or after it was cooked?)

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What an amazing opportunity to put all of this to the test.

Since roughly half of white people in the US are leftists they should be forced into a tofu and water diet for 5 years. At the end of 5 years we can check to see if the climate has improved or not.

Ok, I'll start drinking grape soda and eating fried chicken, Chitlins, BBQ, and pigs feet. That will put an end to this global warming thing. AOC I fixed your whole world is going to end in twelve years problem, no need to thank me.

I'm assuming this "study" is of the U.S.

These asshole idiots seem to forget that whites make up the vast majority of this country, more than blacks and hispanics combined.

Assholes.

Somewhat like the woman in the grocery check out line who chastised me for using plastic bags as opposed to bringing my own bacteria ridden bags. My response? I simply instructed to kid bagging my groceries to go back and 'double' bag everything.

Ya gotta believe the planet is laughing hysterically at the human race and its arrogance in thinking it can somehow hurt the planet. This little blue ball floating in space will be here for hundreds of millions of years after humans are nothing but a long forgotten blip on the celestial timeline.

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Potatoes, beef, apples, and milk

I'm going to shout "Uncle Tom" at every AA that I see eating/drinking any of those white people plant ending items

However, first I'm going to start with my good friend who has dual citizenship in Messico and US (father earned US citizenship in military) as that gringo wannabe eats more steak than any man I know and has an orchard with 40+ trees.

Sooooo...when I eat at Taco Bell, does that mean that I'm hurting the enviro...Eewwww...never mind!

Maybe the answer is to declare white people not really people at all and have them eliminated. Wouldn't that fix the world's problems?

I only eat red meat once every month or two. I'm taking one for the team so some of you guys can enjoy more red meat without destroying the world.

More leftist insanity- hardly even blips the radar anymore.

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I only eat red meat once every month or two. I'm taking one for the team so some of you guys can enjoy more red meat without destroying the world.

Had salmon two nights ago and rockfish last night. I think we deserve some carbon offset credits.

Studies have show that future studies will contradict current studies.

But this one is really stupid!

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the Journal of Industrial Ecology claims that white people’s eating habits are contributing more to climate change than their black and Latino counterparts.

So how is it 'we' are shipping megatons of food to 'them' all over the planet?