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Old Wed, Nov-15-17, 16:27
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Plan: Atkins
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Good point. Also pigs and chickens have a very low carbon impact when they eat farm scraps. Waste not, pollute not.

It's exactly those kind of "what if's" that make me just want to use the general rule of thumb that more expensive things take more energy to make. For instance to keep the land costs down, it may be that commercial GFB farmers use more farm hands. Farm hands mean more cars to get to and from work, energy intensive beef eaten on the side, more home heating and cooling, etc. etc. etc. Maybe they use oat straw in the winter and that means farm equipment to cut and bundle the straw.... and on and on and on...
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