[tchaffee]

What's the carbon footprint of the manufacturing? Meat is also distributed.

What's your source for this claim about ethanol fuels? You can get pure ethanol at any pump in Brazil, it's widely used, and it's even 10% in gasoline. You sure they are losing money on that?

[iancmceachern]

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...

It's the same for the sugar cane based ethanol made in other countries.

[tchaffee]

Can you answer the question about the carbon footprint of manufacturing plant based foods?

The study on corn ethanol looks so-so, however it's only one study and has a lot of disclaimers about possible problems in methodology. They claim the difference could be as low as zero and as high as 24%. They also are quite strong in saying biofuels must be a part of managing carbon. Just that we need something more efficient than corn. And some scientists have already found problems with the study.[1]

As far as the numbers being the same for sugar cane, that's completely wrong. It produces close to double the fuel.

[1] https://growthenergy.org/2022/05/25/doe-scientists-release-c...