Buying one year's worth of local chicken meat

Sector
Food
Category
Animal product

The average Swiss citizen eats 11.8 kg of chicken per year. The chicken meat production is local and includes farming, slaughtering, packaging, and transportation. The average transport distance is 100 km in refrigerated truck (from the farm to the slaughterhouse to the store).

Carbon footprint breakdown

● Farming and slaughtering chickens 38.54%
● Chicken food 58.37%
● Packaging with polypropylene 2.93%
● Transportation in regrigerated truck 0.16%

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