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Okay, raise your hand if you've ever found yourself standing in a grocery store aisle paralyzed by all the choices.

There's so much we have to think about.

Cost, nutrition.

What even is butillated hydroxyanosol? Will my family eat this?

Add in the climate impact and it can all feel overwhelming.

We know, for example, that meat has an enormous carbon footprint.

Studies show animal agriculture accounts for somewhere between 10 and 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

From the methane and cow burps and manure, and deforestation to create pasture land.

But do we have to go vegan to make a difference?

Or what about organic food?

Is it really that much better for the planet and our bodies?

On this episode of burning questions, I'm talking with Melissa Nelson,

a professor of indigenous sustainability at Arizona State University

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