I, along with most of my foodie friends, have been trying to eat more local foods recently. My husband and I bought a partial share of a community supported agriculture program and we also shop at farmer's markets when we can.
I eat locally when I can in part to reduce greenhouse gases. The idea is to reduce "food miles" - the number of miles your food has to travel to get to you. Why eat beef from Colorado when we have plenty of good beef here in Missouri?
According to new research written about in Environmental Science and Technology, eating less red meat and dairy can be a more effective way to lower an average U.S. household's food-related climate footprint than buying local food.
The research shows that, "switching to a totally local diet is equivalent to driving about 1000 miles less per year" while "replacing red meat and dairy with chicken, fish, or eggs for one day per week reduces emissions equal to 760 miles per year of driving. And switching to vegetables one day per week cuts the equivalent of driving 1160 miles per year."
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