[lbo-talk] 100-mile diet - Sure it's self-involvement, but is it also bullshit?

[John Thornton]

Jordan Hayes wrote:
>> And the idea that we are going to go back to small, multi-crop farms
>> seems ridiculous when the trend has been the other way for centuries.
>>     
>
> Didn't I just read somewhere that buying lamb raised in New Zealand and 
> shipped + trucked instead of the midwest (US) has a 4x carbon footprint 
> *improvement* ...?
>
> /jordan 
>   

Someone forwarded something about NZ lamb having a smaller carbon 
footprint that UK lamb for residents of the UK.
I didn't see the data behind it but I have my doubts.

John Thornton