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It's Earth Day, April 22 2008 | 74 comments (74 topical, editorial)

Re: It's Earth Day, April 22 2008 (3.00 / 0) (#30)
by Jon Miller (Fieldlines 'at' otherpower 'dot' co 'dot' uk) on Tue Apr 22nd, 2008 at 02:31:13 PM MST
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Fungus,

For the record, im interested on your view, from your response it suggests is a corner you fright from regularly.

Inquiring as a chap in my class is vegan also. He has now chosen not to eat soya, wondering what your stand on it is? It is a matter of strong debate.

Personally I wounder about the intensive agriculture, mono culture and desertification growing it produces. Also the use of chemicals, the associated waste and energy use, the carbon foot print of shipping it around etc etc. Not so clean cut.
Jon M

www.otherpower.co.uk "I am certainly not a perfectionist, the thing is to know where you can take short c
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Re: It's Earth Day, April 22 2008 (3.00 / 0) (#47)
by fungus (info@reenergy.co.uk) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 06:16:21 AM MST
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"Personally I wounder about the intensive agriculture, mono culture and desertification growing it produces. Also the use of chemicals, the associated waste and energy use, the carbon foot print of shipping it around etc etc. Not so clean cut."
Just a few thoughts ..
I do totally agree with you that many of these things are very harmful for the environment, but it can be very hard to track down sources with a lot of food as many issues arent very clear cut, however someone else I know asked the main soy product companies and they did confirm that their source was grown outside of the rainforests etc ..
I don't personally have much of it anyway but can be good for some things ..
And environment isnt the only reason I don't eat animal products but its a pretty compelling point :)
The report I linked to above is a very interesting read .. 400 pages long though so ..
I'd definitely like to get into growing more food of my own but its hard being in the middle of a city .. planted some potatoes this year which should be good hopefully :) ..
Also amazing how much food is wasted, even before it gets to people ..
<rant> ;-)
Lemme see if theres other things I can think of that I do green ..
I am part of the 'Powerpod' project (http://www.edinburgh-powerpod.org/) which is pretty cool, get some time off school sometimes which can be good :)
Part of the 'Eco group' at our school but to be honest they do hardly enough to be mentioned ;-)

'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.'-Albert Einstein
Fungus - www.reenergy.co.uk
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Re: It's Earth Day, April 22 2008 (3.00 / 0) (#52)
by Jon Miller (Fieldlines 'at' otherpower 'dot' co 'dot' uk) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 08:35:38 AM MST
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Fungus,

I do intend in at least reading some of the report but like you say, 400 pages! Along with college work im not sure it will get read any time soon.

Just spent a couple of hours working out the maths behind the space needed to produce biofuel.

Slightly off topic but along the same lines, using more bio fuels means less space for food to be grown so more is imported from 'third worlds'.
Jon M

www.otherpower.co.uk "I am certainly not a perfectionist, the thing is to know where you can take short c
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It's Earth Day, April 22 2008 | 74 comments (74 topical, 0 editorial)

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