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If This Is Not The Onion...

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Chan

Chan

Another Leaf on the Vine
Sure, if you're getting lettuce shipped from around the world, but if it's possible to eat locally produced food, and restrict yourself to what's in season, the carbon footprint will fall pretty dramatically.

Not everyone has access to those kinds of local grow operations and co-ops, but I think a big part of this is the fact that we want fresh Pineapple in December.

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~ND
 
It's the Onion, just disguised as CMU. It's most certainly the self-centered US lifestyle that causes the greenhouse gas emissions, not the diet pattern. It even seems to me that this study has only been fabricated for junk media headlines to dumb down the population even more.

Dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK

The age-and-sex-adjusted mean (95 % confidence interval) GHG emissions in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents per day (kgCO2e/day) were 7.19 (7.16, 7.22) for high meat-eaters ( > = 100 g/d), 5.63 (5.61, 5.65) for medium meat-eaters (50-99 g/d), 4.67 (4.65, 4.70) for low meat-eaters ( < 50 g/d), 3.91 (3.88, 3.94) for fish-eaters, 3.81 (3.79, 3.83) for vegetarians and 2.89 (2.83, 2.94) for vegans. In conclusion, dietary GHG emissions in self-selected meat-eaters are approximately twice as high as those in vegans. It is likely that reductions in meat consumption would lead to reductions in dietary GHG emissions.

link.springer.com

Dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK - Climatic Change

The production of animal-based foods is associated with higher greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than plant-based foods. The objective of this study was to estimate the difference in dietary GHG emissions between self-selected meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK. Subjects...
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And because it's fitting - the US pollutes the environment twice the time per capita compared to China or the EU.

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