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Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint: study - Yahoo! News
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:59 am EDT, Aug 27, 2008

BERLIN (AFP) - Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with meat-eaters' diets responsible for almost twice the emissions of those of vegetarians, a German study said on Tuesday.
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A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year the same amount of greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car 4,758 kilometres (2,956 miles), the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said.

Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint: study - Yahoo! News



 
 
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