http://www.psfk.com/2008/05/john-grant-responds-to-organic-carbon-issue.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.psfk.com/2008/05/john-grant-responds-to-organic-carbon-issue.html/comment-page-1#comment-14368 john grant Sun, 11 May 2008 21:29:14 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/05/john-grant-responds-to-organic-carbon-issue.html#comment-14368 It was that spin doctor from the British Poultry Council I was really responding to, obviously :) - the only reason organic chicken (which in the UK means free range as well) had a bigger average footprint in the UK government study he was quoting was that it had a longer lifetime as well as a considerably happier one. If you buy from a local butcher/market who source from local farms (rather than national grocery chains who even in the UK have 800 mile long supply chains for fresh food) I suspect you could more than compensate for those few kg of carbon, and anyway 45% of a small number isn't very much :J It was that spin doctor from the British Poultry Council I was really responding to, obviously :) – the only reason organic chicken (which in the UK means free range as well) had a bigger average footprint in the UK government study he was quoting was that it had a longer lifetime as well as a considerably happier one. If you buy from a local butcher/market who source from local farms (rather than national grocery chains who even in the UK have 800 mile long supply chains for fresh food) I suspect you could more than compensate for those few kg of carbon, and anyway 45% of a small number isn’t very much :J

]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/05/john-grant-responds-to-organic-carbon-issue.html/comment-page-1#comment-14367 john grant Sun, 11 May 2008 21:28:44 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/05/john-grant-responds-to-organic-carbon-issue.html#comment-14367 It was that spin doctor from the British Poultry Council I was really responding to, obviously :) - the only reason organic chicken (which in the UK means free range as well) had a bigger average footprint was in the UK government study he was quoting was that it had a longer lifetime as well as a considerably happier one. If you buy from a local butcher/market who source from local farms (rather than national grocery chains who even in the UK have 800 mile long supply chains for fresh food) I suspect you could more than compensate for those few kg of carbon, and anyway 45% of a small number isn't very much :J It was that spin doctor from the British Poultry Council I was really responding to, obviously :) – the only reason organic chicken (which in the UK means free range as well) had a bigger average footprint was in the UK government study he was quoting was that it had a longer lifetime as well as a considerably happier one. If you buy from a local butcher/market who source from local farms (rather than national grocery chains who even in the UK have 800 mile long supply chains for fresh food) I suspect you could more than compensate for those few kg of carbon, and anyway 45% of a small number isn’t very much :J

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