Saturday, May 1, 2010

At home and carbon footprint

We are at home again. We were released from the hospital with an antibiotic treatment.

We lost weight and the vets are worried, so we will eat special food imported from Europe. Do you imagine the carbon footprint of that food? Can you count all the carbon emissions and energy wasted in cropping grain to feed european chicken, kill the chickens, cook them, put them in small sachets, put the sachets in boxes, transport the boxes to the port by rail or road, put the boxes in a boat, ship the boat to Australia, unload the boat, put the boxes in a truck, drive the truck to Canberra and then store the boxes at the vet hospital in order to give kittens like us a chance to survive a diarrhea?

Big Question: Is more energy in the food inside the sachet than the energy invested in process, pack, transport and deliver the sachets?

It seems vets committment to save the world starts by saving us!! And Luis and Naty could not agree more with that position!!


Lord and Lady Delamere

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