The attacks on local permaculture farming has begun!
“Food from urban agriculture has carbon footprint six times larger than conventional produce, study shows”
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-food-urban-agriculture-carbon-footprint.html
Discussion
Growing your own food is not a crime.
Anyone that uses the words “carbon footprint” should be ignored.
This is a fine example of really poor journalism... the headline does not match the content.
E.g. "Tomatoes grown in the soil of open-air urban plots had a lower carbon intensity than tomatoes grown in conventional greenhouses, ."
It's as if the scientists went out of their way to prove growing your own food was bad... but could only come up with... it's the extra infrastructure... sheds, raised beds and whatnot. And strangley almost no mention of the carbon footprint of trucks, tractors, food storage warehouses and grocery stores.
"Carbon footprint" is nonsense, of course, but useful to throw back at them. 😉
I'm going to have to find the original story. It's fascinating what kinds of contortions some media will go through to prove a pre-decided narrative.
This story also broke in the uk newspaper, The Telegraph.
time to sharpen those pitchforks