That’s Captain Ahab, Dude
Want to reduce your carbon footprint? Of course you do. It’s the latest craze, and you’re all about the latest craze. In that case, reports a new study touted by the pro-whaling Norwegian group High Northern Alliance, it’s time you booked your ticket on the low-carbon, whale-meat express!
“People can eat whale meat with a good conscious (sic),” says Rune Frovik of the High North Alliance, which has conducted the study.
The study compared the carbon foot print of Norwegian minke whale meat and farm raised meat. It found that the carbon foot print of beef was eight times higher than that of whale meat. “Put simply, one meal of beef emits the same amount of greenhouse gases as eight meals of whale meat,” says Frovik.
When expressing greenhouse gas emissions as CO2 equivalents, whale meat ends up with 1.9 kg per CO2 equivalents while the corresponding values are 17.4 for lamb, 15.8 for beef, 6.4 for pork and 4.6 for chicken.
The CO2 equivalents for other types of meat were done through other studies.
The High North Alliance has for years argued that abundant whale stocks make whale meat a sustainable and ecological sound option. International scientists estimate that there are more than 100,000 minke whales in the areas where the Norwegian commercial whale hunt takes place.
“Now it is also confirmed that whale meat is low carbon and good for the climate,” Frovik says.
Reuters has more. Crispy covered all things whalicious — from whale recipes to Hayden Panetierre to Fudgie the Whale — here.
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