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Diet for climate change

You may not be able to get to Denmark, but you do have a chance while the conference continues to change a few food habits. Here’s how to develop your own climate change menu.[rssbreak]

Nearby rules

Choose local when there’s a choice, but stay focused on the fact that not all short-distance munchables are sustainable.

Use tree logic

Favour food from perennial plants that don’t require plowing. It could break the local rule, true, but getting calories from oranges, apples, pears and other tree fruits means less tilling and less releasing of carbon from the soil.

Get carbon slim

Fill up on 10 servings a day of veggies and fruit, five from perennials.

Go cold turkey on red meat

It takes 8 pounds of grain to make a pound of beef, 2 for chickens, and cows belch and fart methane gas, a more powerful warmer than CO2.

Chuck processed cereal

Frosted flakes and sugar pops suck up too much energy. Stick to muesli or oatmeal.

Can tin cans

Instead, soak dried beans, simmer your own tomato sauce. Make it up.

Shop local and often

Weekly grocery hauls lead to food waste and over-reliance on vehicles. Go light go regularly.

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