Lowering your pet's carbon pawprint with insect-based food

(California News Service) Cats and dogs eat a lot of meat. In the U.S., they gobble up about a quarter of the calories derived from livestock. If they were counted as a country, America’s pets would rank fifth in global meat consumption. Producing all that food generates about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, not to mention the land, water, and other resources required to farm animals. 

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EarthTalk - Why haven’t the governments of the world come together to ban or limit the production of plastics?

Dear EarthTalk:

Why haven’t the governments of the world come together to ban or limit the production of plastics globally like they’ve done to reduce ozone depleting chemicals in the 1980s and greenhouse gasses more recently?

Peter B., Wallingford, CT

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