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Posted by mamster on Sunday, September 28, 2008

Today in the Seattle Times:

Eating the Asian Way: Less Meat, Full-On Flavor

“Choosing a bag at the checkout line is typically far less important than choosing what to put in those bags,” wrote Clark Williams-Derry on Seattle’s Sightline Institute’s blog, The Daily Score.

His colleague, Justin Brant, followed up with a calculation: Change the contents of one grocery bag from mostly meat to mostly plants and you save enough energy to manufacture 186 plastic bags. Producing meat—yes, even organic, local meat—requires a ton of energy.

I have been known to, say, write an article about chard and get so sick of chard that I don’t eat it again for a year. This was just the opposite. I’m still routinely taking less than half a pound of meat and turning it into dinner.