“Shifting less than one day per week’s worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more [greenhouse gas] reduction than buying all locally sourced food.”
From a paper by Christopher L. Weber and H. Scott Matthews of Carnegie-Mellon, quoted in the Freakonomics Blog: Do We Really Need a Few Billion Locavores?

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