Post by @forkranger

😱 The extreme footprint of bell peppers… To be fair, this is an outlier and most other fruits and vegetables come nowhere close to the footprint of chicken. This video is based on a study in Switzerland. The title says it all: “Is ‘local food’ best? Evaluating agricultural greenhouses in Switzerland as an alternative to imports for reducing carbon footprint.” There are a few conclusions from this research: 1️⃣ Local production is much worse for the climate if it requires heating 2️⃣ Local production in Switzerland is preferable in the summer months because the water stress is much lower 3️⃣ Do we really need local bell peppers all-year-round? These three points illustrate why we created the seasonal calendar. To make it easy to choose the *local + seasonal* option. Each page shows the ingredients that are in season that month and also lists 4 easy recipes with those ingredients (and without meat). Sources: Bell pepper numbers: Burg, V., Solgi, H., Rezaei, F., Pfister, S., Roshandel, R., & Hellweg, S. (2025). Is ‘local food’best? Evaluating agricultural greenhouses in Switzerland as an alternative to imports for reducing carbon footprint. Resources, Environment and Sustainability, 20, 100209 [Table C1 from supplementary data] Important note: all the bell peppers in the video come from greenhouses. So the ‘seasonal bell pepper’ in summer might have an even lower footprint if it’s from an open field. But it’s difficult to say because that was not part of the study. Chicken and beef footprint: median from Poore, J., & Nemecek, T. (2018). Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. *Science*, *360*(6392), 987-992.