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Please find attached comments from the Center for Food Safety and
the Cool Foods Campaign.  

CFS is a non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy
membership organization established in 1997, working to protect
human health and the environment from potentially harmful food
production technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives.
CFS combines multiple tools and strategies in pursuing its goals,
including litigation and legal petitions for rulemaking, policy
and research, as well as public education.

The Cool Foods Campaign of the Center for Food Safety is a public
advocacy education campaign to inform the public about the impact
of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture and the food
system on global warming. The Campaign has conducted extensive
scientific data analyses of greenhouse gas emissions from all
aspects of the U.S. food system.  The aim of the Campaign is to
educate people about the impact of their food choices across the
entire food system and create lifestyle and legislative changes to
reduce global warming.  Our campaign seeks solutions to the problem
of global warming, and focuses on agricultural practices and food
choices that can reduce and reverse this trend.

While the Center for Food Safety and the Cool Foods Campaign focus
mainly on sustainable agriculture, we are submitting our comments
under “general comments” because there are a number of areas
included in the scoping plan that directly affect farming and
agriculture in various sectors.  While the draft scoping plan
specifically details agriculture as a sector, our comments will
focus more broadly on the entire food system of California, which
is incorporated into various sectors including transportation,
recycling and waste, water usage, industry and electricity.  We
will be focusing on the ways in which food and the food production
and distribution system can limit its overall greenhouse gas
emissions on a government, industry and household level.