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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: "Eating Local" Has Little Effect on Warming, Study Says


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Workers in Florida load baskets of ripe tomatoes onto a truck to be sent to a cannery.

A new study found that transporting and processing accounts for only 11 percent of food production's total climate impact, suggesting that eating locally may have little effect on global warming.

Photograph by Winfield Parks/NGS