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Life Cycle: Greening the Other White Meat

Posted on September 04, 2008

Sarah Smarsh and Simran Sethi are writing a series on the impacts of everyday things. They will be posting previews on Green Options before launching the posts on Huffington Post Here's a peek at pork.It's lunchtime, baby. Panda Garden. Porky goodness. Mooshu style.The other white meat in your takeout container falls behind beef and chicken in American consumption, but we do pig out on pig on average, each of us consumes 51 pounds of Wilbur annually. That translates to big impact on our water and air.Due to the high variety of bacteria, worms and other undesirables in pig flesh, and be...

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