Gidon Eshel: The Impact of Food

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Channel: PopTech · 2010 · Science & Technology

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Gidon Eshel is a statistician who grew up working on a dairy farm on an Israeli Kibbutz, a combination that's led to a deep knowledge of how what we eat affects our planet. His finding: a meat-based diet far exceeds the carbon emissions of a plant-based diet -- meaning that most people's usual way of eating -- the Mean American Diet -- is truly "MAD."

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