The Triple Whopper Environmental Impact of Global Meat Production. Letâs compare the highest-impact producers (the top ten percent) of plant-based proteins with the lowest-impact producers (the bottom ten percent) of meat and dairy. All agricultural practices have been found to have a variety of effects on the environment.Some of the environmental effects that have been associated with meat production are pollution through ⦠30 For nuts it is 2.4 and for tofu, 3.5 kgCO 2 eq. Comparing Environmental Impact of Different Foods. Whereas replacement of all ruminant meat by poultry and pork can reduce the GHG emission by up to 35%, moderate reduction (up to 20%) in total meat ⦠In the case of animal agriculture, different species and different animal products have different environmental impacts. The environmental impacts differ between different species of animals; different practices are involved in raising cows, poultry or fish. The environmental impact of beef tends to be ⦠In the evaluation of processed protein food based on soybeans and meat protein, a variety of environmental impacts associated with primary production and processing are a factor 4.4â> 100 to the disadvantage of meat. The report's authors reached their conclusions by weighing different side-effects of food production. This is a huge increase on the 150,000 following a âplant-basedâ diet in 2006. ⦠The pea producers with the highest footprint emit just 0.8 kgCO 2 eq per 100 grams of protein. When comparing any two things, it is important to know what you are comparing. We compared our production emissions data for the main meat proteins to several ⦠... Livestock also serves a different function in the developing world. âCattle and poultry can be walking banks in the developing world,â says Mario Herrero, an agricultural-systems scientist at CSIRO and a co-author of the paper. All agricultural practices have been found to have a variety of effects on the environment.Some of the environmental effects that have been associated with meat production are ⦠Environment. Where the lifestyle used to be mainly driven by ethical concerns, huge numbers of people are now making the switch because of a new understanding of the environmental impact of the meat and dairy trades. In terms of health, many will argue that lean meat or fish constitute an important part of a ⦠The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. The comparison of cheese varieties gives differences in specific environmental impacts ranging ⦠The difference in climate impact between different types of meat is also demonstrated by the results from the scenarios studying the effect of reduced or changed meat consumption. The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. Climate and Environmental Impacts. From the water and grain needed to feed livestock to the emissions createdby huge herds of cattle, farming animals has a massive negative impact on the environment ⦠The chart below shows the lifecycle total of greenhouse gas emissions for common protein foods and vegetables, expressed as kilograms (kg) of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO 2 e) per kg of consumed product.