Vegan For Thought » carbon footprint http://www.veganforthought.com Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:59:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Vegan Fact of the Day http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/04/vegan-fact-of-the-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vegan-fact-of-the-day http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/04/vegan-fact-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:53:47 +0000 Tim http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=207 The “carbon footprint” for New Zealand lamb eaten in Britain has been estimated as equivalent to 1.9kg of carbon dioxide, for each 100gm serving of lamb – 80 percent of that generated by farmers and their livestock on-farm.

Just 3 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions came from processing, and 5 percent from transport, with the [...]]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/04/vegan-fact-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Vegan Fact of the Day: Carbon Footprint http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/vegan-fact-of-the-day-carbon-footprint/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vegan-fact-of-the-day-carbon-footprint http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/vegan-fact-of-the-day-carbon-footprint/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:53:56 +0000 Tim http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=148 If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint by up to 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year!

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