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Eat Less, Or the Icecaps Melt

Meat a big climate change contributor, study finds

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 30, 2008 1:21 PM CDT

(Newser) – To avoid catastrophic global warming, people need to cut way down on their meat and dairy consumption, a new report on climate change says. Four modest servings of meat and about a quart of milk a week are all we should be consuming, the Guardian... Read full story »

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Eat Less, Or the Icecaps Melt

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