- What you eat, and the road that food travels from the farm to your plate, in many ways determine how fast the Earth is heating up.
- That’s because the equipment used to harvest crops, the transport to get it to consumers and the stuff in which it’s packaged, all involve the use of fossil fuels.
- Fossil fuels emit greenhouse gases, which form a blanket in the Earth’s atmosphere, which traps heat.
- Moreover, the dung and farts of cows, sheep and goats also emit greenhouse gases, so the more red meat we eat, the more animals have to be bred and the hotter the Earth gets.
- In this month’s Climate Connection newsletter we break down how to eat to slow down global warming.
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Tanya Pampalone is Bhekisisa's business development consultant and climate health newsletter editor. Pampalone is the former managing editor of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, executive editor of the Mail & Guardian and head of partnerships and audience development for The Conversation Africa. Now a communications, strategy and fundraising consultant, she works with non-profit and mission-driven media groups in San Francisco and Johannesburg.
