Comments on: Lowering your Carbon Foodprint http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2008/12/lowering-your-carbon-foodprint/ Find Good Food with the Eat Well Guide. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:10:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Russell Mayes http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2008/12/lowering-your-carbon-foodprint/comment-page-1/#comment-1811 Russell Mayes Sun, 03 May 2009 02:09:21 +0000 http://blog.eatwellguide.org/?p=216#comment-1811 I am the author of Fear Profits You Nothing and you people are profiting off of simple minded people's fears ... if you can prove without a dought that we are cause global warming global cooling climate change.. what is the next thing you will call it.... prove it to me ... and lets also see the otherside I am the author of Fear Profits You Nothing and you people are profiting off of simple minded people’s fears … if you can prove without a dought that we are cause global warming global cooling climate change.. what is the next thing you will call it…. prove it to me … and lets also see the otherside

]]> By: Walter Jeffries http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2008/12/lowering-your-carbon-foodprint/comment-page-1/#comment-892 Walter Jeffries Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:38:05 +0000 http://blog.eatwellguide.org/?p=216#comment-892 It goes beyond emitting less. My carbon foot print is deeply negative. Our farm absorbs a tremendous amount of carbon in our fields and forests, soaking up about 1,600 tons of carbon per year beyond what our family and farm emit. Ironically the government is now selling carbon credits to corporations. Those carbon credits they are selling are not theirs to sell. It is farm land and forest land owners who are soaking up the carbon and those are the people who should get paid for those carbon credits. But once again our government is stealing from us. It goes beyond emitting less. My carbon foot print is deeply negative. Our farm absorbs a tremendous amount of carbon in our fields and forests, soaking up about 1,600 tons of carbon per year beyond what our family and farm emit.

Ironically the government is now selling carbon credits to corporations. Those carbon credits they are selling are not theirs to sell. It is farm land and forest land owners who are soaking up the carbon and those are the people who should get paid for those carbon credits. But once again our government is stealing from us.

]]> By: TwinToddlersDad http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2008/12/lowering-your-carbon-foodprint/comment-page-1/#comment-818 TwinToddlersDad Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:10:51 +0000 http://blog.eatwellguide.org/?p=216#comment-818 You make an interesting point. Let us extend this a little bit more. I think we should look at the TOTAL energy consumption during the full cycle of food production and consumption. If you look at it that way, industrial farming may be "efficient" but food storage and distribution is not. Simply increasing the fuel efficiency can have a much bigger impact on the carbon footprint of the food industry. Organic farming is labor intensive and does not have the scale to feed a growing population. Therefore it cannot be the only solution. We should consider a hybrid approach and try to minimize the energy consumption in the whole value chain. You make an interesting point. Let us extend this a little bit more.

I think we should look at the TOTAL energy consumption during the full cycle of food production and consumption. If you look at it that way, industrial farming may be “efficient” but food storage and distribution is not. Simply increasing the fuel efficiency can have a much bigger impact on the carbon footprint of the food industry.

Organic farming is labor intensive and does not have the scale to feed a growing population. Therefore it cannot be the only solution. We should consider a hybrid approach and try to minimize the energy consumption in the whole value chain.

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