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Originally Posted by blankall
That's bit of a bum argument. Most sources of emissions pale in comparison to transportation, which is the single biggest source of emissions. The whole food production industry is only about 10% of emissions.
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Food production is 25% of C02 emissions. Transportation of that food via container ship to the end customer is a drop in the bucket. We should optimize food production by growing/raising it in the most efficient places do to natural geographic advantages.
https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions
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Originally Posted by blankall
An interesting tidbit form this article that seems to counter the base argument many on here are making:
This points to the efficiency of large farms.
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No, it points to the geography of New Zealand being more suitable to raise sheep. They have huge swaths of land to graze them off of the natural vegetation as opposed to bringing in feed.
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Originally Posted by blankall
At the end of the day, it seems that we should be eating things that can be produced efficiently locally and not importing. If X product can be produced more efficiently somewhere else, then the solution would be to look for a more efficient local product and stop eating so much of X product.
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You've got this completely backwards unless all we eat in Alberta is wheat and canola.