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Save Energy, Save the Planet, Lose Weight = Eat Less Meat & Junk Food

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packaged meat in a supermarket photo
photo by flako via flickr

We’ve covered the connection between a high meat, high processed food-based diet and climate change a number of times: Most recently on how meat and dairy production itself creates more carbon emissions than how we ship those products to market. Adding more fuel to this fire is a new report from Cornell University published in Human Ecology.

One-Fifth of U.S. Energy Consumption Goes Into Food Production
The study points out that considering that the average U.S. citizen consum

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