Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/24/2008 1:34:20 PM PST by mojito
A holiday all about seasonal food presents a real opportunity to eat sustainably. But making the right choices is more complicated than you think. Should you buy local or organic? Or is what you eat -- and how much -- more important?
Researchers are racing to find an answer. Some are analyzing cooking methods and calculating the "carbon life cycles" of food. The Bon Appetit Management Company Foundation, a nonprofit organization that educates consumers about the impact of food choices, assigns carbon points to a variety of ingredients. (Each point is equal to one gram of gases that contribute to global warming.) Other economists have tallied food production and transportation emissions.
There isn't yet a definitive answer to what makes a green Thanksgiving. But knowing some basic strategies can help you make informed choices.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Don't you feel guilty?
Click the link to see just how big and unsustainable your Thanksgiving holiday footprint will be.
I think I'd like to add my own footprint to these whiny eco-snivelers backsides.
Is there a connection between the brain disorder that causes extreme hypochondria and the one that causes this kind of anal-retentiveness about AGW?
My Thanksgiving meal is only partially sustainable. I expect to have enough leftovers to just make it through the weekend.
Our Thanksgiving Dinner is sustainable for at least a week, including but not limited to turkey pot pies, flaming turkey wings, etc. :^)
Well, we did an early version yesterday, the leftovers should sustain us for a few days until we go to the friends’ place and do it all over again. So, yup, it’s sustainable.
Just makes me want to fry several Turkeys for friends and such instead of just one for the family.
Um, tasty, and a large carbon footprint as well. Remind me to leave the old diesel truck running for heat and burn a few more logs as well...
Screw the Washington Peeust....I’m roasting dead, oppressed Turkey with butchered pota-toes, capitalist crony corn on the cob, racist green bean casserole, fascist dinner rolls, and carbon enhancing peas. I could care less what carbon credits are involved or if I warm the the planet afterwards with my own methane gas, or if I helped destroy some bugs habitat that nobody ever sees or would squash if they did see it./rant
Hey WaPo; how many trees did you kill to print this worthless article?
These leftists are trying to ruin the fun of Thanksgiving. Is there anything fun in America that the leftists haven’t tried to ruin?
I would say we are going to run out of turkeys.
But somebody elected a bunch of them to Congress this year.
So obviously, no shortage.
put the holiday back where it belongs - at the end of harvest.
Then people can eat from their own gardens and/or local produce. No cross-country transportation needed.
No one better dictate to me about my Thanksgiving Day table. Half the people at the first Thanksgiving are my ancestors. They persevered through many years of persecution and dangers to get to that first Thanksgiving in the most freedom they had ever known, and hard won = and they left us a legacy and the seed of a free people's/
I think every time I see a loonyleft green article, I will fire up all four of my organically grown American V8s and let them percolate for a few minutes.
I suspect the author of intending this to be tongue-in-cheek, but "environmentally correct" made me giggle whether intended or not. This sort of environmentalism is totalitarian pretty much by definition, there being no area within the continuum of human life that its adherents do not intend to govern by diktat. I note as well a certain sliding scale with regard to accountability for proposed non-answers to non-problems. Ethanol for fuel was originally a Green initiative, it is to be remembered (but not remembered by the ones originally in favor of it. They're now busy blaming Bush and Capitalism for their own failure to think the thing through).
This is simply the ultimate extension of the dictum that the personal is the political: an invasive, inflexible, arbitrary and rigidly enforced campaign for an unnecessary redemption in the eyes of the self-appointed guardians of nothing less than the entire Earth. These truly are con men and women of the first magnitude, and one longs for the Olden Days wherein at least the snake-oil salesmen would let you keep the bottle.
I doubt there is anything left that they haven't tried to ruin. They have to be the most miserable people in the world.
As for me and my family we have Thanksgiving and Christmas meals covered. Turkeys are in the freezer along with the ham. Add in any of your choice of green beans, tators, sweet tators or corn (all from my garden) and you can have a fine meal. Anything else one would want is in my pantry. There will be homemade yeast rolls and pumpkin pies made by me. Now that meal would put a smile on a leftist, though their face would crack. Carbons we don't have. I don't have a recipe for that.
looks like we're back to saving trees by recycling the labels off of ketchup bottles.
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