While I’ve not doubt that a vegan president-elect Kucinich would be closer to my views on the animals-we-call-food, it’s enheartening truly to see Obama talking about food policy with a true intellectual approach, trying to understand how environmental issues are mixed up with how “food” is produced.
First, to backtrack. Via ecorazzi ( Barack Obama Discusses [...]

Two recent finds online worth sharing.
First, a video which came through the TED Talks video feed in Miro. It’s not actually from TED but from EG, which is a similar conference in Monterey focused on innovative ideas and wealthy audiences.
It’s Mark Bittman, a food critic for the New York Times (and author of How to [...]

(Via Organic Consumers Association) A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology discusses the contribution that food makes to global warming:
Van Wing, who coined the term locavore with a friend 3 years ago, says curbing global warming is one of many social and environmental reasons for eating locally. And for many people, “food miles”, [...]

Just came across an excellent post from Jamais Cascio on the Carbon Footprint of the Cheeseburger
In summary, he concludes:
To make it clear, then: the greenhouse gas emissions arising every year from the production and consumption of cheeseburgers is roughly the amount emitted by 6.5 million to 19.6 million SUVs. There are now approximately 16 [...]

As previously reported here, last year’s report from the UN International Panel on Climate Change was pretty clear, if subtle, about the idea that livestock production was a major factor in production of greenhouse gasses, and that reducing or eliminating your consumption of such products was one of the best ways you can contribute to [...]