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    A team of German researchers conducted a study to calculate the true cost of foods if environmental impacts were included. They found that meat, especially beef, would be significantly more expensive - a beef steak would cost 146% more. Producing meat causes high emissions that are currently not priced into food costs. The type of food, whether meat or plant-based, has a greater influence on the environment than the production method. Including the environmental costs could encourage many consumers to shift to a more plant-based diet, benefiting both the earth and human health.

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    A team of German researchers conducted a study to calculate the true cost of foods if environmental impacts were included. They found that meat, especially beef, would be significantly more expensive - a beef steak would cost 146% more. Producing meat causes high emissions that are currently not priced into food costs. The type of food, whether meat or plant-based, has a greater influence on the environment than the production method. Including the environmental costs could encourage many consumers to shift to a more plant-based diet, benefiting both the earth and human health.

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    A team of German researchers conducted a study to calculate the true cost of foods if environmental impacts were included. They found that meat, especially beef, would be significantly more expensive - a beef steak would cost 146% more. Producing meat causes high emissions that are currently not priced into food costs. The type of food, whether meat or plant-based, has a greater influence on the environment than the production method. Including the environmental costs could encourage many consumers to shift to a more plant-based diet, benefiting both the earth and human health.

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    A team of German researchers conducted a study to calculate the true cost of foods if environmental impacts were included. They found that meat, especially beef, would be significantly more expensive - a beef steak would cost 146% more. Producing meat causes high emissions that are currently not priced into food costs. The type of food, whether meat or plant-based, has a greater influence on the environment than the production method. Including the environmental costs could encourage many consumers to shift to a more plant-based diet, benefiting both the earth and human health.

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    Costo prodotti alimentari

    How much would the food cost if we take into


    account the impact on the environment?

    A team of researchers carry out a dedicated


    study and found out that the major differences
    are not caused by the cultivating or breeding
    method, they’re rather caused by the type of
    food.
    If we recalculate accurately the price of farmed
    meat, taking into account the effect on the
    environment, a simple beef steak would cost
    146% more.
    There’s something positive, if the environmental
    cost, relative to the food production, is
    integrated into what we pay for our weekly
    shopping, it’s likely that a large part of consumer
    would pass to a vegetable diet and this is good
    for the earth and their health.
    This is what is said in the new study, published on
    Nature Communications.
    A group of German researchers wanted to show
    the invisible environmental cost related to the
    food supply chain: from land use to fertilisers,
    methane emissions, heating and transportations.
    In fact, they close the cognitive gap between the
    effects on the environment and what we eat,
    translating them into a real economic cost for the
    consumers.
    More precisely, they considered the agricultural
    german contest, focusing on meat products, milk
    and vegetable, comparing crops and biological
    livestock with the traditional ones.

    Some results were really surprising.

    Regarding the impact on the planet, the


    emissions caused by the production of meat,
    make this product the most expensive, followed
    by dairy products and products of vegetable
    origin.
    In general, biological crops and livestock
    contribute at the decrease of emissions, caused
    by the production of dairy products and products
    of plant origin, that make them less harmful for
    the earth.
    The reason is that the biological agriculture
    doesn’t allow the use of nitrogenous mineral
    fertilisers and this reduce the overall emissions.

    But the truly surprising thing is the meat, it


    turned out that the emissions caused by
    biological livestock farming are just as high.
    That can depend both on the fact that biological
    farms need more space to satisfy the standard of
    animal welfare and for the lower yields, two
    traits that reduce their efficiency.

    Regarding emissions, a vital aspect researchers


    have noticed is the fact they do not depend on
    the type of agriculture or breeding practiced, but
    rather what is produced from.
    This suggests that the choice of what we eat
    could have a greater effect on the environment
    than the way the food is produced.

    The environmental impact is only one of the


    many aspects they toke care of, they actually
    wanted to make it tangible for the consumers,
    translating into an added economic cost.
    They showed that the meat products coming
    from traditional farms would cost 150% more if
    they toke into account the damage to the
    environment.
    The price of dairy products should increase of
    91%.
    Compared to the increase of price of biological
    products plant-based would be barely 6%.

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