It’s not really surprising that a “journalist” from the UK Guardian is a wackadoodle eco-nutjob
‘Eco-conscious’ families should eat their Christmas trees, urges reporter
Instead of throwing out your Christmas tree, a journalist writing for The Guardian urged families to consider eating it.
“Instead of sending their pine, fir and spruce trees for recycling or replanting, growing numbers of eco-conscious households are trying to make the most of them by eating various parts before throwing them out,” Miranda Bryant wrote. “Fir trees can be used in ice-cream, to pickle vegetables and even to flavour gin.”
Food experts said a Christmas tree can be used to cook, using the needles like rosemary or basil leaves as a kick of citrus or pine flavor and a source of vitamin C, she wrote. By burning the wood, eco-family households can also make pine ash for use in the garden or kitchen cleaning.
According to the National Christmas Tree Association, 25-30 million real Christmas trees are sold in the United States every year.
“You can pretty much eat the whole thing,” Julia Georgallis, author of How to Eat Your Christmas Tree told The Guardian. “You can use the needles as you would use rosemary or bay leaves, for flavour.”
A five-foot Christmas tree is probably about 12 years old, she said. “I don’t know why in a climate crisis, when trees are our best armoury, we’re cutting down thousands a year to keep hostage in our houses.”
Sigh. And the forests are replanted, allowed to grow.
