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  • From: John Paul Endicott <jpendicott AT gmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Greens are the beef of vegetarianism
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:35:40 -0400

Interesting article.  I can't say I'm surprised:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/16/arugula-the-beef-of.html

Depending on where you live, eating baby spinach or arugula is almost like eating a burger, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. It's that intense. Sure, if you live in the Central Valley of California, or in Florida, not so. But most people live very far from those places. If you live east of longitude 100 [Draw a line through the middle of the Dakotas—MKB] and north of, say, Jesse Helms country, you have no business eating greens at all between October and June. Again, you know, you're free to do whatever you want, but if you want to be really careful about your greenhouse gas footprint, this is what you should do.




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