How Green Is Your Food?


	How Green Is Your Food?

bookchick49

1-6-2007 1:55 AM

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environment, green, alternative energy, greenhouse gas, antibiotics, organic

bookchick49 says:

a few more questions at the web site with a results page to see how you scored.

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					Quiz: How green is your food?
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				<DIV class="cap">Are there pesticide traces in your chips?</DIV>
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Food scares, health fears, foot-and-mouth, organics and pesticides - what we eat is never far from the news.
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