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Climate Watch contributor David Gorn<\/strong> has been looking at the link between climate and the food we eat. His latest report<\/a> aired recently on NPR’s <\/em>All Things Considered.
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So I have to admit, when I first got this story assignment from National Public Radio, my reaction was mixed. You want to reduce global carbon emissions by changing your personal DIET? Oh, come on. I mean, how much of an impact could diet change have on climate change?<\/p>\n

Quite a bit, apparently.<\/p>\n

A United Nations report says livestock accounts for 18 percent of the world\u2019s greenhouse gasses, much of it from the methane produced by cows<\/a>, as well as goats and sheep.<\/p>\n

Shipping beef and dairy products across the country and around the globe also contributes heavily to that carbon footprint, in the form of emissions from trains, planes and trucks.<\/p>\n

So the idea is that by cutting out beef and cheese from your personal diet, you can significantly reduce your personal carbon footprint. Chris Jones, a staff researcher at UC Berkeley\u2019s Institute of the Environment<\/a>, says the production and distribution of beef, pork, lamb and cheese are particularly high offenders on the greenhouse gas emissions chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In my story for All Things Considered<\/em><\/a>, I focused on an Earth Day event where the University of San Francisco cafeteria and about 400 other food service outlets across the country, managed by Palo Alto-based Bon Appetit<\/a>, were cutting all beef and cheese out of the menu for one day. Yes, no cheeseburgers in a university cafeteria. Scary thought, eh? The students didn\u2019t seem to flinch, though.<\/p>\n

It looks like this approach to the low-carbon diet<\/a> it may be catching on among Bay Area hospital cafeterias, as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear what effect the current efforts might have on climate patterns but it\u2019s a familiar pattern to Americans; using personal buying power to influence public policy decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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