Posted on 11/12/2018 12:25:32 PM PST by rktman
People need to cut back on burgers because they're contributing to climate change, the United Nations said this week.
The United Nations Environment Program said research shows that Americans eat about three burgers a week, and if one of those was swapped for "a plant-based alternative burger for one year, it would be like taking the greenhouse gases from 12 million cars off the road for a year."
The World Economic Forum blames the beef and dairy industries for churning out more greenhouse gas emissions than oil companies or some countries like Germany. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association argued that environmental regulations imposed under the Obama administration were "federal requirements on cattle producers that discourage innovation and impose rigid requirements that do not work on cattle operations and, moreover, defy common sense."
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I don’t know. Ours opens at 10 am and closes at some point in the night.
Eat two!
Make the United Nations really sad!
“How about we cut off all the food aid to every country. They won’t eat and we can still enjoy our hamburgers.”
One of the better ideas I’ve heard. Let’s do it.
I always have F UN by eating In N Out..
+1
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