Bord Bia has launched its summer campaign, inviting the people of Cork and beyond to indulge in the delightful tastes and diverse range of Irish farmhouse cheeses.
According to a new study, if meat prices reflected the environmental impact of production, the days of McDonald’s dollar menu would be over. A study conducted by scientists at Augsburg University in Germany and published in
Nature Communications found that if the toll of animal agriculture on the environment was calculated, meat prices would increase by a whopping 146 percent and dairy products by 91 percent. Once environmental costs like carbon, nitrous, and methane emissions are accounted for, suddenly, instead of costing you two dollars, a McDonald’s hamburger would run you back 292 dollars.
The High Environmental Cost of Meat
Conversely, the study also looked at organic plants and produce and found that if the same environmental fees were applied to organic food, prices would only rise by 6 percent. One of the authors of the study, Amelie Michalke, explains this discrepancy, saying, “If these market mispricing errors were to cease to exist or at least be red
handle on the flames now, but remember yosemite is a huge tourist destination, obviously, this time of year. a local fire chief says it involved somebody with a marming marge growing with a marijuana growing operation, yet the forest service said they found nothing to indicate that of all. the maker of a yogurt company says mold turned up in some of the products. chiboni said some customers were getting sick. on the website one person said it tasted like wine. another calling it unnervingly fizzy. the ceo of the company says chiboni traced the problem to a type of mold that often pops up in the dairy environment and the issue is totally fixed now. chiboni asked stores to pull the product from the shelfs and today the company made it a formal recall. they warned everybody that mold in the food could trigger breathing trouble. if you see moldy food, don t