A couple weeks ago, I fed my roommates lentil soup with carrots, roasted chicken with spicy-glazed carrots on the side, and tortellini soup with carrot coins floating in the homemade chicken broth (not all on the same night, thank goodness!).

Andrea said, “I feel like I’ve eaten more carrots this week than I’ve ever eaten in my life.”

It turns out that carrots are responsible for the lowest carbon emissions among common foodstuffs, at 0.2 pounds of CO2 per pound of carrots, according the UN.  And — surprise, surprise — beef is at the other end of the spectrum, with a whopping 20 pounds of CO2 per pound of meat.

The NYT reports:

The trillions of farm animals around the world generate 18 percent of the emissions that are raising global temperatures, according to United Nations estimates, more even than from cars, buses and airplanes.