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this study relies on this database
https://doc.agribalyse.fr/documentation-en
which compiles multiple lca studies. this is explicitly against the guidance for lca studies, because lca studies are all disparately methodized.
I’m afraid this is probably bad science
Worth noting that it was also 16% cheaper, as well.
From the intro to the study: “In the OMNIVEG study, 14 healthy, physically active men followed a traditional MedDiet for 3 weeks and a vegan MedDiet for 4 weeks, with a 1-week washout.”
Small sample size. Highly selective criteria for choosing the subjects. Very short test duration. The impact assessments are opaque, arbitrary and massively over-extrapolated. None measure actual impacts, only projected impacts. This study is a methodological mess: all noise and no signal.
Do it again in a long-term longitudinal study with a large, diverse sample population, and measure real impacts, not proxies, then we’ll actually know something.
:O
Eat local though. Importing olive oil from the Med means you’re burning diesel.
Given that choice you should buy local, but most of the difference in emissions depends on the type of food, not transport.
this is based on poore-nemecek, which suffers from bad methodology.
Type of food matters, but also, how it is fertilized. Choosing “organic” means avoiding fertilizers made with fossil methane.
Why mention Mediterranean? Does a vegetarian Hindu diet not have the same affect?
Because it’s not what they tested in the study. If the Hindu vegetarian diet includes dairy, I doubt it’d be as efficient as a vegan diet
Ok, it never occurred to me that even if you actively worship your source of dairy…still not vegan…
Turns out religious people love loopholes
You… You know other animals produce milk right?
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I know Hindus drink plenty of cow milk and in part worship cows for that life giving, that is what I’m talking about.
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Diets differ a lot and Hindu is far more vegetarian than Mediterranean.
