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"Couldn't sleep last night. I'm worried about my carbon footprint" 8 April 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Reference
- DCDL-0014079
- Description
The cartoon shows two sheep chatting in a field. One of them explains that she couldn't sleep last night because of her worry about her carbon footprint. Refers to the fact that new research shows that a 100gm serving of New Zealand lamb consumed in Britain carries a carbon "cost" equivalent to nearly 2kg of carbon dioxide. The "carbon footprint" for New Zealand lamb eaten in Britain has been estimated as equivalent to 1.9kg of carbon dioxide, for each 100gm serving of lamb - 80 per cent of that generated by farmers and their livestock on-farm. Just 3 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions came from processing, and 5 per cent from transport, with the remaining 12 per cent down to retailers and consumers. The New Zealand study by AgResearch and released today by meat companies, is the first published carbon footprint to cover the entire life cycle from farm, through to cooking and eating the meat, and the disposal of waste and sewage.
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- Part of
- Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].
- Format
- 1 digital cartoon(s), Works of art, Digital images, Cartoons (Commentary)
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"Couldn't sleep last night. I'm worried about my carbon footprint" 8 April 2010. Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].. Ref: DCDL-0014079. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22413989More information can be found in our terms of use.