6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
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Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there’s some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing sustainable practices, like organic agriculture, has huge potential to help in the fight against global warming, and maintaining the status quo with widespread industrial agricultural practices will continue to be terribly detrimental …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Eat Meat, Ditch Factory Farming, Save the Planet, says Friends of the Earth Report
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You don’t have to be a vegetarian to eat green. Not only that, we can feed the fast-growing population of the planet, and slow down (and eventually stop) climate change, and stop destruction of the world’s forests, all without the deleterious effects of factory farming.
So says a new report from Friends of the Earth, which lays out a model for food production and consumption that includes fair,…Read the full story on TreeHugger