Products
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Chicken
Categories: Poultry | Meat | Food
Chicken production accounts for ~10% of global livestock emissions1, which is ~1.5% of total global emissions2.
The vast majority of emissions in chicken production come from feed (80-85%)3.
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0.7 Gt for chicken production, compared to 7.1 Gt for all livestock emissions. Gerber, P. J., Hristov, A. N., Henderson, B., Makkar, H., Oh, J., Lee, C., ... & Oosting, S. (2013). Technical options for the mitigation of direct methane and nitrous oxide emissions from livestock: a review. animal, 7(s2), 220-234. ↩
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Total global emissions in 2016 = 49 billion t CO2e. https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions ↩
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Cederberg, C. (2009). Greenhouse gas emissions from Swedish production of meat, milk and eggs 1990 and 2005. SIK Institutet för livsmedel och bioteknik. ↩
Subcategories: Chicken burger | Chicken (cold cut) | Chicken (corn-fed) | Chicken (eco) | Chicken (free-range) | Chicken (mature) | Chicken breast | Minced meat (chicken) | Chicken sausage | Chicken (drumstick) | Chicken (leg) | Chicken (frozen) | Chicken (whole)
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Recipes
*only recipes with more than 50 grams of Chicken are shown.Recipes |
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