MYTH #2 Eating Locally Raised Animals is Sustainable Buying locally grown food is preferable if and only if all else is equal. If a household buys only local food but regularly buys animal products, they are saving the greenhouse gas equivalent of about 1,000 miles of driving per year. However, if they eat vegan food for only 1 day a week with no regard for buying local they save the equivalent of 1,160 miles per year. This is because only 4 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. food system are the result of transportation from producer or processor to consumer. The fact that animal agriculture is responsible for 51 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions is not due to the final transportation process, it’s due to methane, respiratory emissions, and clear-cutting forest to grow animal feed and provide more grazing land. With final transportation only accounting for 4 percent of total emissions, it is more resource efficient and sustainable to eat whole, organically grown plant foods grown 3,000 miles away than it is to eat animal foods grown by your neighbor onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/myths-the-media-perpetuates-about-animals/
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