* Calculated through the amount of food supplied for consumption and how many kgs of CO2 per kg of produce, per person annually.
Pork = 3.54 kg
Poultry= 1.07 kg
Beef = 30.86 kg
Lamb & Goat = 35.02 kg
Fish = 1.60 kg
Eggs = 0.92 kg
Milk – including cheese = 1.42 kg
Wheat & Wheat Products = 0.19 kg
Rice = 1.28 kg
Soybeans = 0.45 kg
Nuts – including Peanut Butter = 1.77 kg
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U.S. per capita food carbon footprint in 2017, by key food type
This statistic displays the carbon footprint per capita for major food products in the United States in 2017. During that time, the United States' carbon footprint for beef consumption totaled over kilograms of carbon dioxide per person per year. Globally, about kilograms of beef was consumed per capita.
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