This video is mainly about beef production, the footprints of various foods, and agricultural land requirements to produce various foods.
It concludes that beef can be produced in a variety of ways with differing impacts on the climate, but will always produce more emissions than a vegetarian or vegan diet.
Teaching Tips
Positives
It does not shame the viewer for their food choices but empowers individuals to make informed decisions based on one's own knowledge.
It dispels common misconceptions about beef production and addresses misleading marketing campaigns.
Additional Prerequisites
The content of the video ends at 10:13, the remaining time is an advertisement.
There is an ad before the video.
Differentiation
Students can use the Foodprint Calculator to determine their diet's annual environmental impact.
Students who are inspired to take action can start a Meatless Mondays campaign.
As an individual, consuming meat, particularly beef, is one of our biggest contributions to climate change. There is also a lot of misleading marketing out there in regards to the carbon footprint of various ways in which beef is produced. This video dispels some of these myths and talks about the carbon cost of beef. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
HS-ESS3-4 Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.
HS-ESS3-6 Use a computational representation to illustrate the relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships are being modified due to human activity.
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.7.9-12 Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.
