<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/du-ufc121718.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><header style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class="">Public Release: 17-Dec-2018</span></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class="">Understanding food's carbon footprint</span></h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;">DUKE UNIVERSITY</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class="">Researchers asked more than 1,000 participants in a nationally-representative sample to rate the energy used -- and the greenhouse gas emitted -- by the production of one serving of 19 different kinds of food, and by using one of 18 different appliances for one hour. Participants underestimated the environmental impacts of appliances and food production, but they underestimated the impacts of food significantly more than those of appliances.</span></p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dt class="yellow" style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class="">JOURNAL</span></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Nature Climate Change</font></em></dd></dl></a><div class="">
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