If you eat a kilogram of beef, you’ll cause about an extra 2 days of factory farming. It’s 3 days for pork, 14 for turkey, 23 for chicken, and 31 for eggs. In contrast, if you eat a kg of honey, you’ll cause over 200,000 days of bee farming. 97% of years of animal life brought about by industrial farming have been through the honey industry (though this doesn’t take into account other insect farming).
Having these numbers be weight seems less useful than having them by calorie, since not all animal products are equally calorically dense.
(I admit, calories are a proxy for nutrition, and weight is perhaps a proxy for calories, but the less proxies we can have of the thing we need to measure to perform a consequentialist accounting the better!)
Honey is about 3000 cal per kg, beef 2900, so pretty similar. I’m more concerned that they’re not doing typical consumption rates—you could stop eating pork and eat a similar amount of beef instead (or tofu or Beyond, of course), but nobody is replacing a 200g steak with 200g of honey.
I’d imagine the average serving size of honey is 10-30g and a heavy honey consumer eats on the order of 10 servings a week. My dad was a beekeeper growing up and we didn’t go through 1kg of (free—he sold it at markets for an overall profit—extremely high quality honey) a week as a family but we went through several kilos of meat.
Having these numbers be weight seems less useful than having them by calorie, since not all animal products are equally calorically dense.
(I admit, calories are a proxy for nutrition, and weight is perhaps a proxy for calories, but the less proxies we can have of the thing we need to measure to perform a consequentialist accounting the better!)
Honey is about 3000 cal per kg, beef 2900, so pretty similar. I’m more concerned that they’re not doing typical consumption rates—you could stop eating pork and eat a similar amount of beef instead (or tofu or Beyond, of course), but nobody is replacing a 200g steak with 200g of honey.
I’d imagine the average serving size of honey is 10-30g and a heavy honey consumer eats on the order of 10 servings a week. My dad was a beekeeper growing up and we didn’t go through 1kg of (free—he sold it at markets for an overall profit—extremely high quality honey) a week as a family but we went through several kilos of meat.