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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Flaxbee

(13,661 posts) Thu Sep 27, 2012, 03:30 PM Sep 2012

A Guide to Eating a Plant-Based Diet [View all]

http://zenhabits.net/ (today's post for 9/27/2012)

The article isn't preachy, just informative.

Eating as a vegetarian or even as a vegan is usually much more frugal and much, much more energy efficient than eating an animal-products diet.

Just fyi

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A Guide to Eating a Plant-Based Diet [View all] Flaxbee Sep 2012 OP

Very informative. Thanks for posting! CurtEastPoint Sep 2012 #1

what if your harvesting meat from your pond and woods, is that not frugal as well loli phabay Oct 2012 #2

Yes, it is efficient, and while I'm not fond of meat, if what you do is humane Flaxbee Oct 2012 #3

depends on the traps you use. kill traps are pretty much instant when matched with the proper loli phabay Oct 2012 #4

Interesting positiveidea Oct 2012 #5