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  • From: "maury sheets" <maurysheets AT verizon.net>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greens are the beef of vegetarianism
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:14:50 -0400

This just goes to show you that there are a lot of quacks out there that call themselves scientists and because they are on the ”internet” that makes it gospel.  A bunch of crap!  My greens grow all winter in the greenhouse and the house can go below freezing and they still turn out fine.  You couldn’t drive a truck to the California border, much less to the East Coast,  and only produce the same amount of carbon my greenhouse uses all winter.  Some of these people need to get a life.  He would be right if he was talking about tomatoes.

 

Maury Sheets

Woodland Produce

South jersey

 

From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John Paul Endicott
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:36 PM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Market-farming] Greens are the beef of vegetarianism

 

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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