Episode 151

[FOCUS] Quiz On Food And Climate Change

Episode Summary: This episode revisits a segment from a previous conversation on Foods and Climate Change, focusing on the carbon footprint associated with various food types. 

Jenn and Olabanji engage in a quiz crafted by Leekei, uncovering insights that highlight the complexity behind seemingly simple food-related questions. 

The episode also sheds light on the diversity of dietary habits, revealing how certain foods that are staples in some regions may be rare in others.

source for the quiz: https://www.foodunfolded.com/

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Jenn Swanson and Olabanji Stephen

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France.

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.    

Olabanji is from Lagos Nigeria, he’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Transcript
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Today, as I've told you, I would

like to play a little quiz with you.

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Woohoo.

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And, um, so hope that you're prepared

because, um, I know that you are all

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very, very competitive and you want to,

you know, to have it right all the time.

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So let's go . Yeah, let's, let's, let's.

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And so first question, it's dessert time,

Which fruit, because we love fruits.

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Which fruit is better for the environment?

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Blueberries or papaya,

Blueberry, . Blueberries.

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Okay.

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What about you all?

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Avenge.

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Why do I feel like I'm on a hot seat?

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uh, blueberries.

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I, I think blueberries.

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Yeah.

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Mm.

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Well actually I think that blueberries is

the right answer for Jen because she lives

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in Canada and from the last time I checked

Canada is a big exporter of blueberries.

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But because you're in Nigeria and

Nigeria doesn't produce a lot of

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blueberries, but a love papaya,

And, um, Oh, I think I missed it.

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Uh, yeah, my bad.

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. That was, Yeah, sorry.

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It was a trick.

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It was a trick.

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My bad.

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So, So yeah.

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Where's the buzzer now?

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Okay, so let's do.

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Oh, bet you, What's your answer?

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Uh, papaya would be the answer.

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So we, we, we kind of call it

around here, we, we call it pop.

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So . Yeah, . Yeah.

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So I didn't get that as fast as I should.

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Yeah.

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Got it.

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But I think the fruit that is best for

the environment is that the one that

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is grown locally, but is pure there.

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Yeah.

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And not in a green house and in season.

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Sometimes, you know, I don't know, in

France, sometimes I don't think they will

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see it ever again, but I remember maybe 10

years ago there was cherry imported from

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South America or something for Christmas

and they sell it very at the very

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expensive price because it was expensive.

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So, and I think that we, that is

very, For the, We have blueberries,

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blueberry farms, all around where I

live But papaya is very expensive

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because it doesn't grow here.

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. Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You both are correct.

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With the new answer from

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Oh, now we understand the rules.

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Okay, ? Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Now we get it.

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Okay.

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This is something I found on the

website called Fold Unfolded,

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which is, uh, website that informs

consumers in Europe on the carbon

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emission of each type of food.

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So question, It goes by pair.

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Okay.

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I'm going to give you two.

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Foods and you are going to tell me

which one Emits more carbon dioxide.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Potatoes or lentils?

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Um, I'm gonna say lentils for me more.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I didn't get that.

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Come again.

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Potato or, or what?

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Lentils.

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Um, I, I'm not sure what that is.

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Actually . Okay.

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It might be called something else.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I'm wondering something like that.

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Pulses.

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Pulses.

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Pulses.

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Yeah.

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Uh, doesn't sound familiar.

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little tiny hard things that you have

to soak and then cook in Indian food.

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Oh, no, I, I've not, I've

not seen a lot of that.

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It's a bad question.

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Okay.

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Um, ? No, no, it's not a bad question.

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So I can see a picture of it now.

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It looks like beans, right?

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Yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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Like beans.

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Oh, okay.

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We, we don't, we don't see a lot of

that, so, um, I would say, I would say

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lentils, but well actually potatoes,

uh, emits more carbon dioxide really.

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Lentils.

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Oh, and lentils is a

great source of protein.

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Oh, really?

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Um, yes, it is interest.

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Yeah.

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Cause I feel like, uh, potatoes, like

they kind of grow in most areas here.

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Cheese or milk?

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Uh, is, is that like choice

or ? Which one makes more carbon?

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No, it's, it's, which one?

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Emits more carbon.

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You need to choose cheese or milk.

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Yes, it's a choice.

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, Um, milk, They're kind of the same

thing, but the transport I'm thinking of.

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Are you thinking, do you

mean like production of it?

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So it's production.

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There's no transport involved here.

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Oh, production.

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Oh.

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That might actually be cheese.

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It might be, yeah,

because cheese is process.

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I mean, it's more process than,

Than, than, no, yeah, that's right.

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Okay.

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Question, Beef or lamb,

which one emits more common?

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