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Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« on: January 30, 2024, 12:58:03 pm »
Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally – ‘Individual garden infrastructure responsible for increased levels of CO2’
By Marc Morano
January 23, 2024
9:44 pm

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/22/carbon-footprint-homegrown-food-allotment-increase/



UK Telegraph: “The carbon footprint of homegrown foods is five times greater than produce from conventional agricultural practices, such as rural farms, data show.

A study from the University of Michigan looked at how much CO2 was produced when growing food in different types of urban farms and found that, on average, a serving of food made from traditional farms creates 0.07kg of CO2.

The impact on the environment is almost five times higher at 0.34kg per portion for individual gardens, such as vegetable patches or allotments.”

https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/01/23/study-carbon-footprint-of-homegrown-food-five-times-greater-than-those-grown-conventionally-individual-garden-infrastructure-responsible-for-increased-levels-of-co2/
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2024, 12:59:02 pm »
Are big business and global warming conspiring against the consumer? :whistle:
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2024, 01:56:55 pm »
I plan on expanding my Victory Gardens footprint this year.
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2024, 02:52:24 pm »
We'll need to grow our own food for survival when these Global Climate Change fruitcakes' fertilizer ban cause global famine.
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2024, 05:45:50 pm »
This is just stupid, what are the people with homegrown food doing, using tractors to cultivate their small plots, bussing in migrants to perform the harvest? If you have thousands of small plots with plants 'eating' C02, and being cultivated and picked by hand, how are they possible putting more C02 into the atmosphere than they remove?
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2024, 05:51:24 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 30, 2024, 01:56:55 pm
I plan on expanding my Victory Gardens footprint this year.

Same here.  Clearly, 'they' don't want us growing our own food.
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2024, 06:03:54 pm »
And remember folks we have always been at war with Eastasia.
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2024, 07:47:35 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on January 30, 2024, 06:03:54 pm
And remember folks we have always been at war with Eastasia.
That's the gist of it.

The garden I grow with no fertilizer, no pesticides, no gasoline-powered devices somehow is bad for the environment. Welcome to Bizarro World.
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2024, 07:50:27 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 30, 2024, 07:47:35 pm
That's the gist of it.

The garden I grow with no fertilizer, no pesticides, no gasoline-powered devices somehow is bad for the environment. Welcome to Bizarro World.

The garden you grow provides you with independence.  And that is the thing they cannot tolerate.
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
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Re: Study: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally –
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2024, 01:56:18 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 30, 2024, 01:56:55 pm
I plan on expanding my Victory Gardens footprint this year.
Me, too.
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