The carbon footprint of brain, lamb, raw
Brain, lamb, raw emits about 0.515 kg CO₂e per 1 kg of prepared product. Below is where that figure actually comes from — every stage of the chain, not a single headline number.
- Packaging
- 0.288 kg
- 56%
- Producing the packaging it reaches you in.
- Transport
- 0.194 kg
- 38%
- Moving it from farm to processor to shop.
- Processing
- 0.033 kg
- 6%
- Turning the raw product into food: milling, refining, slaughter, curing.
How it is grown changes the number by 79%
These are 5 separately assessed production systems for the same product. Emissions are farm-gate — the part the grower controls — and range from 11.455 to 54.918 kg CO₂e. A label on a shelf almost never tells you which one you are holding.
- Lamb, conventional, Roquefort system, at farm gatelowest11.455
- Lamb, organic, system n°2, at farm gate27.351
- Lamb, organic, system n°1, at farm gate32.568
- Lamb, conventional, indoor production system, at farm gate42.42
- Lamb, organic, system n°3, at farm gate54.918
kg CO₂e per 1 kg of prepared product, cradle to farm gate. Farm-gate figures exclude processing, packaging and transport, so they sit below the full total above.
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Each emits less than half as much as brain, lamb, raw.
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Common questions
- How much CO2 does brain, lamb, raw produce?
- About 0.515 kg CO₂e per 1 kg of prepared product, measured across the supply chain. That is roughly the same as driving 3 km in an average petrol car.
- What drives the footprint of brain, lamb, raw?
- Packaging is the largest contributor at 0.288 kg CO₂e, about 56% of the total. Transport is only 0.194 kg — which is why what you eat matters far more than how far it travelled.
- Does how brain, lamb, raw is produced change its footprint?
- Yes, substantially. Across 5 production methods in this dataset the farm-gate emissions range from 11.455 to 54.918 kg CO₂e — a difference of 79%.
- Where does this data come from?
- The WRAP UK Food & Drink Emission Factor Database v2.0, which aggregates peer-reviewed life-cycle assessments. This product's figures come from Agribalyse (ADEME).
Figures from the WRAP UK Food & Drink Emission Factor Database v2.0, which aggregates published life-cycle assessments; this product's data originates from Agribalyse (ADEME), for France. Real values vary by farm, region and method — treat these as the shape of the problem, not a measurement of any one item on your shelf.
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