What FOOD is green?
Company reports lie, research is biased or severely blinkered, that is, until now...

Centre Info, a Swiss company that specialises in social and environmental rating tools for investors, has created the "Envimpact" rating which weighs the most environmentally-sensitive phase in the life cycle of a product (or service) delivered by 140 corporate sectors and is hoping to expand the use of the rating system in the financial services sector also. (Report by Terradaily)

LaRevueDurable (.com all in french), a Swiss-based environmental magazine, is calling for the system to be adopted as a label categorising publicly-quoted companies or investment funds, similar to those rating the energy efficiency of refrigerators.

That would help shareholders or small savers make choices with climate change in mind, in turn influencing corporate policy, the magazine argues.

In the Food sector they have taken into account items like forest clearance for grazing land, emissions from cattle feed, meat processing and the large amounts of methane naturally produced by cattle meat products. (Report about Food sector by Terradaily). Below is my basic review of this report.

COMPARING FOOD AGAINST CAR PRODUCTION EMISSIONS
USING RATINGS GIVEN BY THE 'CENTRE INFO'

Tyson Foods (big in North America for their meat based products)	Fiat (equal with Renault as the most environmentally least damaging manufacturers of cars)
Tyson Foods produce 1,600 units of CO2 using the Envimpact rating	Fiat produce 2,000 units of CO2 using the Envimpact rating
SHOCKING RESULT!! MEAT PRODUCTION IS ALMOST AS ENVIRONMENTALLY DAMAGING AS MAKING CARS

Danone (producers of that famous 'good bacteria' yogurt, Actimel)

produce 900 units of CO2 using the Envimpact rating

Shows the difference processed products have when freshness can be controlled.

	BEEF Ruminants - grazing animals (cows, sheep, camels) production of one kilo of cut veal produces as much greenhouse gas emissions as traveling 220 kilometres (137 miles) by car.
	PORK Non Ruminants (pigs) turns out to be much more environmentally friendly. One kilo of pork is equivalent to a car journey of just 20 kilometres
	CHICKEN Non Ruminants (chicken) while a kilogram of chicken is worth just 10 kilometres.
	by comparison Dairy products such as one kilogram of yogurt pumps out as much as driving 8 kilometres (shows how processed chicken is...)

Result: Shop locally to start with.