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Good information about the impact of
our appetite for burgers: “• Pound for pound, beef
production generates greenhouse gases that contribute more than 13 times as much
to global warming as do the gases emitted from producing chicken. For potatoes,
the multiplier is 57. • Beef consumption is rising
rapidly, both as population increases and as people eat more meat. • Producing the annual beef
diet of the average American emits as much greenhouse gas as a car driven more
than 1,800 miles.” How Meat Contributes to Global
Warming Producing beef for the table has a
surprising environmental cost: it releases prodigious amounts of heat-trapping
greenhouse gases By Nathan Fiala http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-greenhouse-hamburger RSS Feeds
Newsletters Bookmark Scientific American Magazine February, 2009 Anne Woiwode, State Director Sierra Club (517) 484-2372 |