Watch and Write Video Notes
Why Beef Is the Worst Food For the Climate
Name:
1. On the graph, what types of foods are at
the bottom?
2. What is the worst food for climate
change?
3. “When you only account for the
_______________ that go into the
_______________, transportation,
_______________, and selling of a food
product, the _______________ between
these foods isn’t so great.”
4. What types of products have higher
emissions?
5. Why does coffee have such high
emissions?
6. The _______________ _______________
also accounts for most of the
_______________ between cow and
sheep _______________, and everything
else.
7. What is produced via the digestive process
of cows and sheep?
8. What is the primary way these animals
release this gas?
9. Although it is the second most emitted
greenhouse gas, why is it worse than
carbon dioxide?
Note: Vocabulary from this worksheet and the corresponding video
may be used on the midterm and or final exam.
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10. True or False: The digestion process of
cows and sheep produces more methane
than any other human activity.
11. “Starting in the 1700s, the amount of land
_______________ for _______________
purposes started to _______________.
12. “ A vast majority is for _______________.
And when you divide that up, you see that
land for _______________ animals far
_______________ land for growing
crops.”
13. What crops have negative land use
emissions?
14. Why do these crops have negative land
use emissions?
15. Why is chocolate bad for the
environment?
16. What percent of deforestation in the
Amazon Rainforest is due to cattle?
17. “Changing our _______________ to
exclude high-emission foods has the
_______________ to reduce that by 28%
by both _______________ emissions and
_______________ land.”
18. A lot of food emissions are
_______________. We have to
_______________. But we do have a
_______________ of what not to eat.