Thursday, October 29, 2009

ABC Worries About Carbon Footprint of Food

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"you're eating oil when you're eating a burger: You need oil to make the fertilizer to grow the corn. You need petroleum to make the pesticides to grow the corn. You need oil to move it all around the country."

"What it tells you is that the carbon footprint of that burger is really big," ... "The result is a product that takes a huge environmental toll and obviously takes a health toll as well."

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