The main culprit causing climate change isn't the Hummer; it's the hamburger.
That's the message Anna Lappé, the author of "Diet for a Hot Planet," presented last week to a crowd of more than 100 regional gardeners and foodies at the annual Green Matters Symposium at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, which zeroes in on pressing environmental issues.
The damaging impact of commercial food production has largely slipped under the radar of global environmental policy, although it is one of the biggest reasons the earth is warming, according to Lappé.
"We hear little about how food affects climate," she said.
The title of Lappé's book about food's connection to climate plays off the iconic 1971 vegetarian book, "Diet for a Small Planet," which was written by her mother, Francis Moore Lappé.
Meat production creates more carbon dioxide than all of the world's travel combined, through deforestation, waste and methane that ...