Should hamburgers be labeled at the new climate villains?
It’s a question I’ve addressed here before, along with an in-depth exploration of the merits of local grass-fed beef.
Earlier this week, however, Johns Hopkins researcher Roni Neff told Grist that mass media have largely failed to cover food’s connection to climate change, including a 2006 report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization that said: “Livestock production – including land-use changes for pasture and crop production – contributes more to global warming than every single car, train and plane on the planet.”
What do you think?
Have you started to eat less meat and dairy as a means to shrinking your carbon footprint?
Write me here to share your thoughts or — better yet — comment below and start a broader conversation everyone can enjoy.
On a side note: Despite my above use of the colloquial phrase “carbon footprint,” I must state for the record that the expression is simply idiotic. What we are really talking about is carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, right? Carbon is another element altogether — with its own place on the periodic table, right?
Right.
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