From my cold dead hands ...
Posted on 07/18/2007 2:20:57 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
PARIS (AFP) - A kilogram (2.2 pounds) of beef causes more greenhouse-gas and other pollution than driving for three hours while leaving all the lights on back home, according to a Japanese study.
A team led by Akifumi Ogino of the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, calculated the environmental cost of raising cattle through conventional farming, slaughtering the animal and distributing the meat, New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue.
Producing a kilo (2.2 pounds) of beef causes the equivalent of 36.4 kilos (80.08 pounds) in carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal greenhouse gas, Ogino found.
Most of these greenhouse-gas emissions take the form of methane, released from the cow's digestive system.
That one kilo (2.2 pounds) of beef also requires energy equivalent to lighting a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days. The energy is needed to produce and transport the animals' feed.
A Swedish study in 2003 suggested that organic beef emits 40 percent less greenhouse gases and consumes 85 percent less energy because the animal is raised on grass rather than concentrated feed.
The study appears in full in a specialist publication, Animal Science Journal.
FYI and discussion.
At least warm the grill.
I eat mine medium, is that a lower crime or higher crime?
I feel like driving three hours to get a one kilogram steak dinner while leaving all the lights on at my house.
Global Warming is the gift that just keeps giving to the leftists and social engineers of the planet. Finally they have a blank-check justification for micro-managing every aspect of everyone’s lives, forever and ever, because it doesn’t matter if the climate really changes or not, with Global Warming you get to worry about the climate a hundred years from now and stop people from eating steak TODAY!
Make mine medium rare, I guess this is how the cavemen ended the ice age.
I like mine on a plate.
But, I thought cows burping caused global warming. So, eating a steak should actually help eliminate that problem
LMAO!!
If I had three wishes, one would be for Kobe steak anytime I wanted it.
Good idea. Steak for dinner it is!
Lower............well done is higher.
I’m going to buy two cows and feed them lima beans and cabbage. Then I’m going to build a big bonfire and burn tar paper and shingles.
MAN! Cooked just right too!!
What are we supposed to do? Put Beano in cattle feed?
That is one thing we agree on.
But what are the other two wishes?
No, silly. Fit them all with cattle-itic converters.
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