{"id":12339,"date":"2013-11-28T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:35:21","slug":"green-thanksgiving-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=12339","title":{"rendered":"How Green is Your Thanksgiving Turkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://castlehomecomfort.com/bathtub-installation/ Guest post by Jess Scanlon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Today millions of Americans gather for the traditional Thanksgiving harvest festival. At many of these celebrations the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving dinner is a roasted turkey.<\/p>\n

Buy Valium Online Without Prescription From an environmental standpoint, the turkey falls somewhere between chicken and eggs.\u00a0\u00a0A Cornell study\u00a0<\/a>shows it takes 14 units of fossil fuel to produce a serving of turkey. In comparison its a 4:1 ratio for chicken and a 26:1 ratio for eggs.<\/p>\n

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Hens at the DiPaola Turkey Farm wander their barn in early November. Photo by Jess Scanlon<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Buy Tramadol 100 Mg Online The environmental impact of a turkey or any animal can be calculated two ways: The resources that went into raising it and the resources used to transport it to market.\u00a0 The larger portion of this is the production, comprising\u00a0approximately 83 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the bird\u2019s impact according to Columbia University\u2019s Earth Institute. Buying from a local vendor can reduce the number of miles the turkey travels to the platter by thousands of miles in some cases, but only reduces a small portion of the emissions associated with the bird. So what the individual farmer does in raising the hen or tom has more impact than the consumers\u2019 decision to buy local.\u00a0 If saving that little amount helps your conscience, then buy local. Doing so also helps money stay in the local economy. Still, there are nuances to the local option, which Slate\u2019s\u00a0Green Lantern\u00a0<\/a>summarizes:<\/p>\n

The caveat with locavorism, however, is that the equation isn’t always simple. Assessing the environmental impact of food production requires complex\u00a0life-cycle analysis<\/a>, of which food miles are only one component. For example, the benefits of a shorter farm-to-market journey may be negated if the local operation isn’t as energy efficient as its distant rival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://ramedicare.com/about-us/ In New York City and elsewhere, the turkeys can come from the farmers\u2019 market or the supermarket (or restaurants for those beyond the help of the Butterball Hotline). Birds can also come in organic, free range or fried from other venues. With all these options, knowing which one is the best environmentally is not as simple as deciding white meat or dark meat.<\/p>\n

https://dentalprovidence.com/payment/ New York City\u2019s \u201cgreenmarket\u201d (aka local farmers\u2019 markets) actually come from Central New Jersey about 60 miles south of the city. DiPaola Turkeys, who\u2019ve been selling at the urban farmers markets for more than 30 years raise their turkeys within commuting distance of the city and without antibiotics. They\u2019re not organic, however, because it\u2019s not profitable for the farm to feed them organic feed. So the primary savings here is the number of food miles.<\/p>\n

http://masterfacilitator.com/worldcafefacilitation/ In contrast, the standard supermarket turkey is generally raised in a feedlot by a larger commercial farm hundreds, possibly thousands of miles away from your kitchen table.<\/p>\n

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Commercial turkey farms as shown in a recent\u00a0Mother Jones article<\/a>\u00a0are large operations that raise the turkeys at a highly efficient style for raising the birds as quickly as possible to minimize costs and sell their birds at costs that would bankrupt a small turkey farm. Three companies produce more than 50 percent of the supermarket turkeys. The farms these birds are drawn from are densely populated, as high as 15,000 turkeys. Thus, these commercial operations have an economy of scale that makes it cheaper-per turkey– than the smaller local vendors. Whether the commercial turkey is more energy-efficient than the local turkey farm depends on the practices of the local farmer, further complicating the environmental equation.<\/p>\n

Vicodin Online Purchase Whatever turkey you choose, have a happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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