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\"Swedenco2\"<\/a>This fast food restaurant in Sweden includes the number of kilograms of carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere for each burger<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes indeed. The Swedes are labeling some food items with the amount (estimated) of greenhouse-gas emissions the production of the food puts into the atmosphere! If this experiment is effective, they estimate the country’s emissions could be reduced by 20-50 percent.<\/p>\n

One Swedish burger chain, Max, offers beef alternatives and
\nsigned on enthusiastically to the new recommendations. It became the
\nfirst restaurant chain to publish carbon footprints of menu items to
\nencourage people to eat less beef.<\/p>\n

Determining food\u2019s carbon footprint is difficult and nuanced. Complex production lines make it difficult to track the carbon footprint of an individual product, and consumer suggestions are not as simple as \u201ceat less meat.\u201d For example, the guidelines discourage Swedes from eating cucumbers and tomatoes because in Sweden they can only be grown in energy-consuming greenhouses.<\/p>\n

Read more about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swedes are labeling some food items with the amount (estimated) of greenhouse-gas emissions the production of the food puts into the atmosphere!If this experiment is effective, they estimate the country’s emissions could be reduced by 20-50 percent.\r\n\r\nOne Swedish burger chain, Max, offers beef alternatives and signed on enthusiastically to the new recommendations. 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