Want To Reduce Your Food-related Carbon Footprint? What You Eat ...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 04/22/2008 - 07:00

The old adage, "We are what we eat," may be the latest recipe for success when curbing dangerous global warming.

Despite the recent popular attention to the distance that food travels from farm to plate, aka "food miles," some researchers argue that it is dietary choice, not food miles, which most determines a household's food-related climate impacts.

Fruit, vegetables, meat and milk produced closer to home rack up fewer petroleum-based transport miles than foods trucked cross country to your table....

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