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Does it take 16 kg of CO2 equivalent to make two hamburgers?
Does it take 16 kg of CO2e to make two hamburgers? It seems an exaggeration.
That's about right. For example, per Got Beef? Here’s What Your Hamburger Is Doing To The Climate, it takes 60 kilograms ...
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Is "virtually all the chicken meat we eat" from female birds?
The National Chicken Council, an industry partner of companies like Tyson, has a FAQ for US chicken production:
Healthy male chicks are not euthanized in broiler production (chickens raised for meat, ...
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Is it possible to use microbes to grow protein from air and electricity?
Is it possible to use microbes to grow protein from air and electricity?
Yes, absolutely, and we've been at it for well over half a century.
Solar Foods is a Finnish food-tech startup that is pilot ...
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Is it possible to use microbes to grow protein from air and electricity?
Yes, there is a known type of microbe that feeds on the byproducts of the electrolysis of water, and carbon dioxide, like Solar Foods describes, and Solar Foods is said to be using this kind of ...
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