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I got a chuckle out of this story. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240122140408.htm Apparently the potatoes that I plant and harvest by hand produce 5-6 times more carbon than the potatoes that get from hundreds of miles away. I know I breathe a little heavy when digging up the potatoes, but I never figured I made more CO2 per pound of potatoes than a tractor tilling, planting, spraying, and harvesting. Potatoes are my most reliable crop so that's what I'm using as an example.

Some MSM stories telling us all how evil gardening is:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/carbon-footprint-homegrown-food-five-200247599.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/urban-grown-food-s-carbon-footprint-6-times-larger-than-typical-produce/ar-BB1hBQF3
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1031596
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-food-urban-agriculture-carbon-footprint.html

Here's my translation from the new speak to common english:
We have paid for a scientific study that has proven, just as we paid for, that you having control of your own food supply is bad for the environment. Every time you plant a vegetable garden the polar bears die off, and many species go extinct. To solve this problem the mega corporations will take control of your food supply, and you can be a good boy or girl by eating the lab grown cancer cells and bugs.

Sorry if this is a repost of a similar thread, I haven't been on the forum much lately.
 
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As much as I get what you're saying,  this really needs to be in the cider press.  

For reasons... like the ones you mentioned.

Feel free to start the topic afresh in the cider press.
 
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