Posted on 07/19/2011 3:44:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A new report issued by the Environmental Working Group calculates the carbon footprint of meats, cheeses, and a smattering of other foods.
The results are good news for those who avoid red meat as well as vegans. They are not good news for vegetarian cheese lovers like this blogger.
Special shout-out to those of you who eat baby sheep: You suck! Lamb is the single most carbon-intensive meat, .. (beef 2nd)
Cheese comes out ahead of pork, farmed salmon, chicken and canned tuna. ..
What it means, in practical terms:
-Eating one less burger a week, is like driving 320 miles less over the course of a year or line-drying your clothes half of the time.
-If a family of four skips steak once a week, they may as well have left the car in the garage for three months.
-If everyone in the U.S. gave up meat and cheese one day a week, it would be the equivalent of taking 7.6 million cars off the road for a year.
Eating meat and dairy produced in more eco-friendly ways will lighten your load on the planet. And simply eating less meat and cheese will lighten your load on the bathroom scale.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
They didn’t include whale meat or foie gras.
Eating endangered creatures is illegal.
If you don't think this will happen(perhaps sooner), then you are one of those lost souls who actually believes the global warming/climate change scam is dead.
I guess that's why they're trying to grow meat in petri dishes.
Your cartoon reminds me to ask: what is the carbon rating for goats and camels?
Rack of lamb at Patsy’s in NYC is near the top of my list. However, when I can’t get to the Big Apple I can console myself elsewhere.....such as this past weekend at Carrabba’s here in Camp Hill, PA where Veal Marsala drowned my sorrows. Country boy CAN survive!
By the way; Forgive me for believing God’s Word, but I’ll rely on IT instead of the lying, conniving, dissembling pseudo-scientists who flack AGW and other frauds. One unshakable rock upon which I stand is Genesis 8:22.....
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” CASE CLOSED for me.
There is no way to explain this other than that sheer insanity is in the driver’s seat.
Carbon is the basis of life.
If the nuts so worried about carbon footprints actually succeeded in reducing carbon in the atmosphere, the result would be reduced carbon in the biosphere, meaning that there wouldn’t be as many living things. All living organisms consist of carbon that came from the atmosphere—it’s the basic biology of the carbon cycle.
Is their goal the eradication of life?
Before 10 years are out, California will require vegetarianism and CARB will enforce it. Don’t laugh. My prediction is not that far fetched. California government and their communist supporters are all insane.
I avoid vegans... too stringy.
We should all come live on your farm. Do you have room for a few thousand Freepers?
I checked out your website. I love your political dream!
EWG can FOAD.
We ate at Ruth’s Chris and we were NOT impressed at all. My husband is master griller.
We had one of those the first time we went to EU, 1980, Paris, and I still remember it, so good.
I would tend to agree, most of them look like walking death.
Why are they equating food to cars? Do they think we're not getting enough iron in our diets?
I was up all night running some calculations and have come to the conclusion that the Texas drought is directly related to the number of cattle being grilled too long and too hot...
Well you need to subtract my contribution last weekend, I did pork ribs.
And I actually watered while I was outside. Not that it does any good, everything is still dying.
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