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Old 10-27-2009, 02:07 PM  
hjnet
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Originally Posted by PR_Tom View Post
All ya gotta do is buy as local as you can. So if you have a local butcher, you are not going to go meatless any time soon as long as local farmers bring in the herd.

It's doing things like buying steak from NY when you live in California or overseas that is a problem really. The shipping and trucking burns the fuel, and if it's air shipped.. forget it! A ten hour flight burns about 36,000 gallons of jet fuel.
The Problem is also that 1000 Kalories from Meat require ~4 times as much Water and produce more Greenhouse Gases that 1000 Kalories from i.e. Wheat.

And we not only have a climate change problem, we also have a problem with diminishing water resources
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