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Locally grown food has higher carbon footprint than imported products
London Sunday Telegraph ^
| June 3, 2007
| Richard Gray
Posted on 06/03/2007 11:21:31 AM PDT by EPW Comm Team
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To: EPW Comm Team
It can only happen in the UK, which seems to have double the population of enviro-wienies. Go ahead, destroy your local farm industry you morons. The UK has been very entertaining lately, what with the rush of gullible sheeple running out to buy roof top windmills, spending thousands of "pounds" only to find out that
A) they don't work as claimed, and
B) They make a lot of noise mounted on roof tops, and
C) They have to buy electricity from "the grid" anyways.
Of couse, the day will come when the sheeple realize that they have to stick their windmills a lot further up into "clean air' for them to work properly, and UK towns and cities will become very silly looking with housands of tiny windmills sticking 100 feet above houses on flimsy poles supported with guy wires.
The UK court rooms will also see increased activity from lawsuits against windmill owners when the blades break off during storms and kill their pets and children.
To: P-40
It sounds like using slave labor would be the best option. Those slaves would consume less fossil fuel than machines and thus have a lower carbon footprint. Oh, yeah, now the immigration reform bill is making sense,they just forgot to tell us about the "making them slaves" clause./SAR
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:07:49 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: P-40
Yes, we MUST buy MORE Chinese edibles. We MUST keep them happy with us or they'll shut off the flow of cheap plastic crap to our Dollar stores.
On a recent visit to China, a friend spotted this ad in a Beijing newspaper. He sent me the photo with a translation of the ad copy.
BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR AND JOIN CHINA’S NEW MONIED ELITE! Yes, you can now join the millions of happy and prosperous Chinese citizens taking advantage of the growing numbers of American and Western multinational corporations “outsourcing” their production to the hard-working and industrious people of China. This outsourcing has now spread to their food supplies and ingestible items. Since these firms pay us for gross weight – and this new weight will be pretty gross – and the stupid American government only spot-checks imported items in these categories (they just got lucky on the anti-freeze thing), it has opened an entirely new opportunity which our beloved Chairman is offering to any Chinese citizen willing to do a little of what the foolish Americans call “grunt work.”
Installing one of these state-of-the-art food additive production facilities behind YOUR hovel is as simple as clipping the coupon below and sending it to the address shown. Your production plant will be shipped to you in 4 to 6 weeks. Supplies are limited so don’t fart around. ACT NOW!! 
These silly Americans have an expression we have “borrowed” and modified to describe this new and exciting venture: “Don’t give me any s**t.”
Our motto will be “We won’t give any s**t. But we’ll SELL it to you fools at a really great price.”
To: EPW Comm Team
smaller carbon footprint, but larger melamine footprint, larger death footprint. . get a grip
BTW. I smell B.S.
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posted on
06/03/2007 1:45:32 PM PDT
by
bullfeather
(illegitimate non carborundum)
To: bullfeather
Yes, it smells like ‘Chinese damage control’ in high gear.
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posted on
06/03/2007 2:05:10 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: EPW Comm Team
Has anyone noticed how the church of climate change insists that individuals sacrifice individual good for a supposed common good. Now what, and who, does that sound like?
To: P-40
It sounds like using slave labor would be the best option. Those slaves would consume less fossil fuel than machines and thus have a lower carbon footprint.Slaves fart, thus increasing the methane footprint and global warming
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posted on
06/03/2007 2:14:28 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction)
To: dennisw
True, but we could make some genetically modified non-farting slaves. :)
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posted on
06/03/2007 2:18:08 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: calex59
You mean we haven’t already? /sarc
To: EPW Comm Team
I personally have come to enjoy the pesticides (that were banned in this country) on the fruits and vegies from South and Central America and the antifreeze toothpaste and tainted grain from China. Lets lower the carbon footprint in the USA by importing all of our foods this way we will truely be a green nation, we will have saved the world and we will all be dead from cancer!
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posted on
06/03/2007 4:44:22 PM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(I'd rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
To: calex59
Oh, yeah, we should just stop farming in the US altogether and let other countries supply us with food. Great idea!/SARWhy did you even post that? It makes no sense and nothing in the article even suggested it. Or are you just one of the many here who read headlines and telepathically deduce what the posted article is about?
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posted on
06/03/2007 5:43:28 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
To: EPW Comm Team; OKSooner; honolulugal; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; gruffwolf; ...
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
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posted on
06/03/2007 6:01:11 PM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Thompson Time!")
To: ronnie raygun
For real. Why would we want to be self supportive with our own crops in this coutry. Along with industry I think we should make sure America is dependant on only imports. That makes us stong!
To: EPW Comm Team
The term "Carbon Footprint" is this week's winner of.....
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posted on
06/03/2007 6:09:30 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
To: P-40
“If we could sort it out so that meat was slaughtered and packaged locally, it could make the whole process far more efficient.” Gee, did they try real competition for the food processing, instead of centrally-mandated assignment of packers?
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posted on
06/03/2007 6:23:18 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: BfloGuy
Why did you even post that? It makes no sense and nothing in the article even suggested it. Or are you just one of the many here who read headlines and telepathically deduce what the posted article is about? I posted it because the asshat writing the article was implying that we should import all of our food due to the lower carbon footprint of foreign grown food. Read the article again, perhaps you might get a better understanding of it. I would stick my head in the sand with you but it chafes my ears.
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posted on
06/04/2007 4:09:44 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: EPW Comm Team
WTF? So now we are at the point where we are measuring ‘carbon footprints’ of our food???
Why don’t we just do like all good environmentalists want us to do a Jim Jones and have a mass human suicide so we can save the world. For... um for... well I don’t know why, but it really would be good for “Earth”. /sarcasm
To: EPW Comm Team; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
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posted on
10/25/2015 10:11:17 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: P-40
It would make sense that more cost = more carbon since a large expense is energy.
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posted on
10/26/2015 7:00:44 AM PDT
by
dila813
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Don’t care...
Anyone have any idea how many trainloads of toxins the Chinese had to use to poison dogs all across America a few years ago?
Anyone think Radical Muslims won’t do the same to us if they can? Whatever it costs - I want American food...
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posted on
10/26/2015 8:41:41 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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