Comments on: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint? Why Not Eat Less!

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[...] Those of us that fancy ourselves environmentally conscious eaters spend a fair amount of time thinking, talking, and perhaps worrying about where our food comes from and how it was produced. Concepts like organic and food miles start to compete with price and taste in our purchasing decisions. Under this guise, a lot of people steer clear of red meat as it’s gotten a bad rep for its contributions to global climate change (previously covered on TriplePundit here, here and here). [...]

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By: cedric chaux

cedric chaux — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:42:31 +0000

I guess this point on one of the most difficult challenge of Global warming: changing habits of millions of people…
America is often cited for their excess, but their way of life is often exported and imported in new developed and developing countries ( India and China ) with an high trend to more consumerism.
As I read in many articles, the solution lay in action now, not in an United Nation global compact dream of future.
I hope the people who read this article will start to think about the consequence of their own style of life.
Regards

By: Lee Bellavance

Lee Bellavance — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:37:15 +0000

I don’t see why it is considered an outrageous” suggestion that Americans eat less. It is about as ridiculous as suggesting that trips of under a mile can be made in an ambulatory mode and those under three miles by bicycle. But when the “outrageous” suggestion about eating less is coupled with the fact that many Americans are obese and billions of dollars are spent treating the results of their overeating, it makes so much sense that it should be self evident.