Fighting global warming — at the dinner table

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Scientists report that eating chicken vegetables or fish such as the swordfish above instead of red meat for just one meal per week does more to help fight climate change than buying local. Credit: Courtesy of wikimedia commons
Scientists report that eating chicken, vegetables or fish, such as the swordfish above, instead of red meat for just one meal per week does more to help fight climate change than "buying local." Credit: Courtesy of wikimedia commons

Substituting chicken, fish, or vegetables for red meat just once a week can help combat climate change — even more dramatically than buying locally sourced food, according to scientists in Pennsylvania who studied the environmental impacts of food production and distribution in the United States. The study is scheduled for the May 15 issue of ACS’s bi-weekly journal Environmental Science & Technology.


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