Posted on 07/10/2009 4:43:04 AM PDT by appleseed
No matter how you approach it, summer grilling is a lose-lose situation for Mother Nature.
Are you cookin’ veggie burgers over natural, low-impact lump charcoal that you fired up with a chimney starter? You’re still also cookin' up an ample amount of air pollution.
Are you serving local veggie kabobs expertly grilled over a gas-powered flame? You’re generating less sooty particles but that gas, as you’re probably aware, is a nonrenewable resource.
What about that free-range chicken cooked over an electric grill? If it's plugged in, you're generating greenhouse gases there, too.
If you gotta grill, you gotta grill (but please, hold the lighter fluid). But let’s say you truly strive for eco-perfection and you're a backyard cooking fanatic. Tough one. That is, unless you have a sunny, cloudless sky, plenty of patience, a thermometer, and a solar oven.
...and they hold real still.
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