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21 January 2013 Ntvmsnbc
]What is our world during food production, packaging and shipping?]

Unified Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) draws attention that food is caused by more than three of the greenhouse gases of production, processing, packaging and transportation. According to the figures given by FAO, 20% of the total fossil fuel consumption of the US goes to the food supply chain. [

However, studies show that the actual problem lies in the production phase of the food's transportation distance.

Efficient figure is stunning: harmful gases released in the production of food, 80% of the total of greenhouse gases generated by the life cycle of food. Conventional agricultural applications that are used intensively for petrochemical pharmaceutical and fertilizers, up to 32% additive in human-source greenhouse gas release Tags. Only red meat production is responsible for 18% of global greenhouse gas release.

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