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- From: omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ocie *crow* Mitchell)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.veg
- Subject: Re: Trivia : How much of rain forest is destroyed by one hamburger ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.165924.220@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:59:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.092217.5506@abo.fi> <OLIN.92Nov16115447@obelisk.sics.se>
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- In article <OLIN.92Nov16115447@obelisk.sics.se> olin@sics.se (Peter Olin) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.092217.5506@abo.fi> abulsari@aton.abo.fi (A. Bulsari) writes:
- >
- > How much of rain forest is destroyed by one hamburger ?
- >
- >
- > Answer : About 55 sq ft for a quarter pound one.
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- >
- >Really?
- >
- >I thought most meat for hamburgers here in Sweden, and I suppose in
- >many other countries was produced locally. Am I misinformed? Or did
- >you just forget that this is an international newsgroup?
- >
- >/Peter
-
- Sweden I'm not sure, but I think that in the US, even if the beef is raised in
- the local area, it still may have come from South America. The destruction of
- the rainforest to raise these cattle untill they are old enough to come to
- the US represents some loss. I'm not sure if Sweden imorts its animals,
- since that represents a lot of energy use. Then again, if they were
- interested in a return on their energy investment, they would be growing
- soybeans :)
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