How your Protein Eating Habits Affect the Environment

I came across this interesting post on GOOD and was surprised about some of the findings. If the fact that not all proteins are the same is quite common knowledge, who would have thought that lamb was the worst of all meats in terms of carbon footprint, ahead of pork and beef? Not surprisingly the prize for eco-friendly proteins goes to a non-animal product such as lentils, but not so obvious was cheese’s ranking before poultry in polluting terms. This study by the Environmental Working Group takes everything into account from fertilizers to energy, water, gas consumed in order to produce the final proteins. For someone like me that has built most of its business around pulse trading, this can only be a good prospect for the future… sorry lamb chops, lentils are the food of the future!