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Low-Carbon Diet: The Easy Way To Fight Global Warming

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss air-freight, air-freighted, carbon, chicken, choice, choices, CO2, dairy, diet, distribution, exotic, farmer, farmers, farmers market, food, food miles, food system, footprint, global warming, in-, in-season, local, locally, low, low-carbon, low-carbon diet, market, meat, miles, packaged, processed, produce, regional, regionally, season, seasonal, Sourced, table, transport, transporting, vegetables

Feeding ourselves causes a third of all CO2 emissions, so adopting a low-carbon diet is one way each and every one of us can fight global warming.

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Is Grass-Fed Beef Actually Better for the Environment?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, Allan Savory, anthropogenic, beef, carbon sequestration, cattle, CO2, farmer, farmers, Food Climate Research Network, grass, grass-fed, Holistic Management, livestock, meat, methane, pasture, ranch, rancher, ranchers, red, ruminant, ruminants, Savory Institute

Allan Savory points to the carbon sequestration benefits of grazing cattle on grasslands as an environmental justification for raising livestock…

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What’s Killing All the Bees?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, bee, bees, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, honey, honeybee, insecticides, Jeff Merkley, neonics, organic, pesticides, pollen, pollinate, pollination, pollinator

Activists would like the U.S. government to ban a class of insecticides called neonics that they blame for wiping out the bees that pollinate a majority of our food crops.

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Public Food Lockers: Making Bulk Shopping Manageable

Warren Johnson bulk, farmers, Finger Lakes Meat Project, food, locker, lockers, meat, storage

Everybody likes a deal. Buying in bulk is very popular and quite a number of big box stores operate on the principle of more is less. A common problem to buying in bulk is where to store the purchase, especially food. We don’t want to run to the grocery store every few days. This costs […]