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| Author: | SfEP [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Food consumption and your green house gass footprint |
We may all know that food contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, but did you know that for Finns, daily food may constitute as much as 15-20% of their daily GHG emissions? Most food-based GHG emissions come from agricultural production and nitrous oxide constitutes around 50% of food based GHG emissions. The study conculdes that food may be responsible for 14% of Finland's climate change impacts. see: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integra ... 268na1.pdf |
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| Author: | Johhny Electriglide [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Food consumption and your green house gass footprint |
Interesting, but I am more interested in the other 86%. Fossil fuel burning, garbage, and wood burning. How overpopulated are they?? The USA is at least 4 times max long term sustainable, what is Finland at?? Are they letting in low IQ overbreeders and loco religions overbreeders like us and so many others?   
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| Author: | animal-friendly [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Food consumption and your green house gass footprint |
| Author: | Johhny Electriglide [ Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Food consumption and your green house gass footprint |
Back at ya!!! 
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| Author: | tsmg143 [ Sat Mar 10, 2012 2:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Food consumption and your green house gass footprint |
Thanks a lot for sharing knowledge about food consumption. |
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| Author: | Ann Vole [ Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Food consumption and your green house gass footprint |
I have seen two fairly thorough studies on the environmental impacts of food production. One estimated that 72% of energy used by people in the UK was directly or indirectly connected with human food (including production, processing, storage, transportation, packaging, commercial distribution, consumer traffic, cooking, waste disposal). The other was to do with energy use but restricted to fuels and a part of the USA and it's number was 68%. Make your own food and most of that stuff is eliminated. Eat raw fresh foods and you can eliminate much of the rest of those energy costs. Energy use is directly proportional to greenhouse gas production as long as electricity is still mostly made with coal and natural gas. |
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