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[Food] Carbon negative products
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LamieRobertson
Not awoke
How does Jude feel about you eating their ice cream?
They're trying to refrain from carrying it around on their shoulder.
Because there are only so many trees you can plant before there is no land left to grow crops for food on.....
And once everyone else has sold you their 'carbon credits' - there will be none left to buy.
However - that's a cynical take on it. So good for them in general.
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
I'm an omnivore, I can live off a diet of vegans and meat once all the the crops have gone
Winker
CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE
Carbon Negative? Does that mean the ice cream absorbs carbon as you eat it?
By the time you get to the last mouthful it has turned black!
By the time you get to the last mouthful it has turned black!
AstroSloth
Well-known member
- Dec 29, 2020
- 1,382
What do you think the livestock eat?
Hint - 80% of crops grown worldwide are used to feed livestock.
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
Ok, I'll share the vegans with the farm animals!
Soylent green anyone?
worthingseagull123
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- May 5, 2012
- 2,688
I had some nice brisket tonight.
Not sure how carbon negative it was.
No food waste though.
Not sure how carbon negative it was.
No food waste though.
dsr-burnley
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- Aug 15, 2014
- 2,634
In that case, there's no need to cut back on meat production. Because 9% of crops are used for biofuels and industry, so that means only 11% are used for feeding people. Abolish biofuels, and we have almost doubled crop production for humans. Problem solved with no meat reduction.
Or as an alternative, stop quoting rubbish figures about crop production. The University of Minnesota (link attached) reckons 36% is used for animal feed. Have you a link for your 80%?
How much of the world's cropland is actually used to grow food?
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portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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It’s nonsense at moment, there’s no industry standardisation, agreement of terms etc. Personally I’m enjoying a lot of vegan friendly mineral water currently 
You just made that figure up as you well know. However, the growing of all non meat food for humans requires soil nutrition. This can come from one of two sources: artificial fossil fuel based nitrogen fertilisers that are the single biggest carbon contributor in world agriculture, or livestock manures and proper rotations (legumes that naturally extract nitrogen from the atmosphere and fix it in the soil) and grass, the single biggest carbon sink in the world.
This is why the IPCC stated that livestock farming is ‘part of the solution’ to climate change.
As always, going to the extreme is unhelpful. Intensive livestock farming is not good from a climate or ethical perspective. The same applies to a desire to turn world agriculture vegan.
Balance is required in all areas of agriculture and food production for the sake of animals, humans, and the planet.
BrewDog Is Officially The First Carbon Negative Beer Business
The Scottish multinational brewery and pub chain announced yesterday it became carbon negative, which makes it the world’s first international beer business to reach this status.
www.forbes.com
“BrewDog Is Officially The First Carbon Negative Beer Business”
Eco Ed the vegan from work, farts all day long, he is negative to me just being in the same space.
Duncan Ferguson : “The earth is warming up isn’t it?”
Well I'm going to Glyndebourne in June, and Glyndebourne generates (via its wind turbine) more electricity than it uses (105%). It's also phased out bottled water and uses water from its own spring.
Opera - saving the world one aria at a time.
Opera - saving the world one aria at a time.
Brilliant!
No such thing as carbon negative production in the same way there is no such thing as carbon neutral travel - despite what Easyjet and Herr T will tell you.