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                | Jen | Posted - Mar 04 2008 : 4:14:17 PM It turns out that fighting global warming is good for the waistline. If every American spent 30 minutes a day walking or cycling instead of driving, the citizenry would collectively cut carbon emissions by 64 million tons and shed 3 billion pounds of excess flab, according to Paul Higgins of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
 
 Trim even more by trading in that T-bone for tofu--livestock production produces 18 percent of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization.
 
 -—Dashka Slater, Sierra Magazine
 
 Jen
 
 Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
 
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