Reduce your carbon food footprint
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR climate FOOTPRINT and get healthy too with smart food choices.
Certain foods require more energy usage in production or/and storage.
Become a vegetarian. Animals use up food crops and require lots of water. Plus, methane production contributes to greenhouse gases. The run off of animal wastes contaminate groundwater, news ref
Stop eating potato chips They use up too much water in processing. article article
Eat vegetables and fruits in season and grown locally, organic if available. Washington apples are put in cold storage for many months. article Bananas are picked green and shipped long distances.
Buy nuts in shells. Almonds harvested seasonally are shelled and put in refrigerated cold storage for many months. article article
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