The type of food you choose for your pet might make a huge difference environmentally, because producing wet food creates 689 per cent more greenhouse gas emissions than making dry food
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Calorie for calorie, the production of wet food for dogs and cats creates 690 per cent more greenhouse gas emissions than making dry kibble does, because of the higher animal protein content.
To understand the environmental impact of each kind of food, they looked at the 212 ingredients used in total across all the products and used existing databases to work out the environmental effects of their production. This included greenhouse gas emissions, land use, sulphur and phosphate emissions and the use of fresh water.They found that an average 10-kilogram dog on a dry-food diet would be responsible for about 830 kilograms of COequivalent per year – roughly 12.
The findings add to our knowledge about how pet management can affect the environment – an issue that “should not be ignored”, saysat the University of Edinburgh, UK. But he thinks the numbers in the study don’t look plausible. “I think they’re too high, because we’re talking mostly about byproducts,” he says.
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