On 12/28/2011 12:04 AM, Don Wiss wrote:
> Allan Balliett wrote:
>  >The price is nice, but the closer you buy to home, the better for
> everyone.
>
> Why? If you drive your car 100 miles round trip to pick up meat you will
> have created a much higher carbon footprint than having a package
> shipped inside a tractor trailer truck 2000 miles.
>

Yes! and plants eat that carbon and flourish so that oxen can eat the 
plants and get fat, while farting methane which might increase local 
temperature by 0.003%, thus helping to slow the oncoming ice age.
http://iceagenow.info

William