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It wasn’t enough that we were asked to cut back on meat consumption to stop global warming. Now consumers are being asked to cut back on milk intake to save the world from the devastating effects of climate change. According to the article, meat and dairy products are responsible for eight percent of greenhouse gas emissions followed by fruit and vegetables. Consumers are encourages to follow wartime protocol of shopping by foot, buying local produce and cooking in bulk. Also, consumers are encouraged to reduce consumption of items with low …
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(Via Jake Lake). Research is underway in seed banks to find food that is climate-proof. Seeds will be screened to determine if they can more easily resist drought, floods and temperature swings. The $1.5 million project will provide grants to others who study the seeds of developing nations in hopes of finding crops that can resist extreme climate events and grow with less water and higher temperatures.
Read More: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7622920.stm
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As if reducing our meat consumption wasn’t enough to stave off global warming, a new edict has been handed down that insists that we stop eating breakfast cereal because of the carbon footprint created from its manufacture. We’ll be down to eating grass soon, folks, which you’ll have to fertilize yourself…if you know what I mean.
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The environmentalist folks over at PETA are up to their regular shenanigans again. Now they’re requesting Hormel, of which PETA owns 100 shares of stock, to place a label on their meat products to indicate the footprint being passed on to consumers through the purchase of the meat. “If meat is on the menu, so if a hefty serving of of greenhouse gases,” says one PETA representative.
Read More: www.austindailyherald.com
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Read More: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article4483757.ece
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They’re starving back in China, so finish what you got, or so said John Lennon many years ago. Today, Lennon may have reworked those lyrics to tell us we’re causing global warming, so finish what you got. We’ll never know, but a study found that Americans waste approximately 27% of food and all but 2% goes in landfills which releases methane gas as it decomposes. So be fat and happy, my friends. Finish everything …
