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Cleveland / Eat Lower on the Food Chain
Instructions:
Points: 12
Adopt a diet that emphasizes whole grains, fruits and vegetables and minimizes meat, seafood and processed foods. Meat is a particular energy hog. Producing one pound of beef generates 36 pounds of carbon dioxide.
5 Number Completed:
Action Shots
Linda R.
Hitting one of CWRU's salad bars is a great way to eat lower on the food chain. Here's Jeff, who's clearly excited about lowering his carbon footprint.
Linda R.
At CWRU one of the easiest ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions happens in our dining halls. Tim is taking advantage of locally grown and sustainably harvested foods to eat lower on the food chain. With all the vegetarian and vegan options to choose from, Tim is reducing his footprint even further.
Linda R.
Another student at CWRU, and member of the Student Sustainability Council, is adopting a new approach to eating. Striving for a smaller carbon footprint, Brian is eating a mostly vegetarian diet.
Linda R.
Eating lower on the food chain is easier than many students expected. Dan is choosing low carbon meals, taking advantage of CWRU's vegetarian and vegan options in the dining halls with pizza (no cheese) and grilled veggies.
Daniel B.
It has been nine months and I have not eaten meat or fish.
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240 Points
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Patrick S. says:
Hi There,
Shouldn't this statement differentiate between corn finished, industrial beef production versus grass raised and finished beef? Corn finished beef is obviously a huge consumer of petroleum-derived calories. Grass finished much less so. Corn finished beef is also not sustainable given the impact the price of oil and the environmental costs will have on the price. These factors are not part of the grass fed beef equation given that almost all of the external calories of energy come from the sun.
Thoughts?
Mike S. says:
That is not how 99% of beef in the US is produced, so it isn't worth addressing at this point. Those cows produce waste (albeit less methane gas release) and drink water. Still much more harmful that plant based food.