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Talk about a hard sell: The Low-Carbon Diet, as in, stop eating animal-based products, because they have a huge, huge impact on global warming. I mean, I could give up the occassional bacon I now eat, and the fish and fowl...but the cheese and eggs? Oy. And I already eat way less meat than most folks. From the article:

But with global warming, here’s the inconvenient truth about meat and dairy products: If you eat them, regardless of their origin and how they were produced, you significantly contribute to climate change. Period.

and touching on part of why it's such a hard sell...

...one’s ideas about food reside in the same part of the brain that houses our ideas and beliefs about religion. It’s not all rational, in other words.
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I often have little breakthroughs and insights for particular pieces of fiction in progress right on the edge of sleep, either falling into or waking from, proof, I suppose, that the back brain burners are cooking those story stews even when they're not front and center to my attention. Do you have a similar experience?