Someone seriously spent time putting this “study” together. Hopefully not with taxpayer money
Your diet’s impact on the planet depends on where you live. Look up your city.
Researchers have documented for years that eating beef, pork and chicken has a significant environmental impact, especially when it comes to heating the planet.
But it’s far from a uniform impact. What you eat, and where you eat it, can have a big effect on how much you’re contributing to climate change, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
For the first time, researchers calculated the planet-warming pollution emitted from raising the beef, pork and chicken Americans eat — their carbon “hoofprint” — for every town and city in the country.
Across the country, eating beef is the bigger contributor to harmful pollutants. But it’s not as simple as that. Its origins matter. Eating a steak or a burger in Milwaukee, where the meat comes from nearby dairy cows, generates fewer emissions than in Oklahoma City, where beef tends to come from feedlots.
Mind your own business, but, this is interesting
Can you guess the top three emitting cities in this analysis? Hint: They’re where the most mouths to feed are: New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. When adjusted for emissions per capita, though, researchers found little connection between how much a town eats and its climate impact.
So, three massive Dem cities full of lots of climate cultists. Weird!
What lowers the hoofprint?
“You don’t have to cut out any single meat to have really significant shifts in your hoofprint,” Goldstein said, adding that just swapping half of the beef you eat for other protein can move the needle. The researchers modeled impacts to emissions from simple lifestyle changes that can add up to a 51 percent drop in one’s hoofprint.“The average American eats five servings of beef a week,” Goldstein said. “So, all right, you can still have two burgers a week.” Goldstein is not a vegetarian, he said, and has a burger once in a while.
Or, you can mind your own f’ing business, and leave the rest of us alone.
Cows eat grass and I eat cows, so I’m simply a vegetarian once removed.
At least one company introduced a plant-based hamburger patty. It doesn’t really taste like hamburger.
I’m sure that they did it to save money as opposed to any other reason, but Cracker Barrel removed the sausage from their sausage gravy for their biscuits and gravy, trying to replicate the taste with spices. They call it their “sawmill gravy,” but it would be more accurately named sawdust gravy, because it’s just not very good.
Has been a while since I opined on this website. Life has been a bit hectic in South America since my fulltime retirement which has so far not been fulltime. But I digress.
I thought I would give a short analysis of Trump and his economic tear-down of the world order.
My thoughts and research were coalescing around the standard operating proceedure of most politicians who believe that cutting spending is the way to shrink the budget deficit. However, in watching Trump operate it has become clear that is not what he has ever been about. Not in his private businesses nor his first term as president.
President Trump ran huge deficits in his first term and started out doing the same in 2025. The difference is that in his first term he was never allowed to do anything he wanted to do in regards to the economy because he was harrangued and impeached for the final 2 years and blocked at every turn by Paul Ryan, the establishment GOP leader of the House, during his first 2 years.
So fast forwarding to today we see a president currently unimpeded by political conspiracies. He has sued the Main Stream Media into silence because he continues to win every lawsuit he has filed. So with the basics out of the way, what is Trump’s agenda?
He fully believes that growing the economy will shrink the deficit. This is why his tarrifs are so important to him and his entire plan to simply grow the USA economy to the point that no politician has to cut their favorite program. The politics of more and more jobs is a hard one for any American to condemn. Certainly the Democrats are trying everything they can to stop him but it is too little and too late to stop nations and corporations who have committed 13 trillion to USA investment, with much more to come.
Building new infrastructure to support new jobs will grow the economy. It is why Trump even changed his stance with Ukraine. It is quite popular with NATO and the EU to stand with Ukraine and the country has 13 trillion worth of rare earths and other materials that are of great strategic value to the world. It is one of the most important reasons why Putin pushed so far into Ukraine and then went into trench warfare. He wanted Trump to give him this portion of Ukraine which is extremely wealthy and with China and Russia controlling 90 percent of the world’s rare earths, the die would be cast on the new AI revolution.
So despite the Maga base hating wars and wanting nothing to do with Ukraine, it has become the new Taiwan. Taiwan and its semiconductors and Ukraine and its lavish quantity of rare earths. There is no way Trump can let Ukraine fall, which is why he has tried so hard for peace while at the same time giving Ukraine aide, bought and paid for by NATO so that he does not have to ask congress for a dime.
Additionally, the USA has 239 million ounces of gold that has a preset value of $35.00 per ounce which was set by FDR. If you revalue this gold, the 9 billion in gold the USA has on the balance sheet suddenly becomes 1.3 trillion dollars that will fully change the underlying balance sheet of the Federal Reserve. This could and most likely will cause the credit agencies to raise the USA’s credit rating and even more importantly raise the value of the dollar causing the world to give up trying to wean themselves from the US dollar as the standard of currency.
It is a dangerous game he is playing because if the left succeeds in rioting in the streets then they will have turned the USA into chaos which will force nations to stop investing in the USA. The hate America tour by radical leftist and people like George Soros or more specifically his son who are wedded the the World Economic Forum will invest billions into destroying Trumps Make America Great agenda of bringing new infrastructure and jobs to America and rebuilding the dollar and strengthening the other nations of the world through their involvement with him on a simple business transaction.
There is always politics behind everything a politician does but Trump does not see it this way. He sees it on a purely dollar and sense platform. Common sense without political drama is what is driving Trump to do the things he is doing. Maga, I think, only understands the politics of what is happening and revel in the pain of the left, but the leaders of the world understand the deeper context of what Trump is doing which is why you see so many leaders including NATO and the Middle East jumping on the MAGA bandwagon.
Because making America Great Again, makes those riding in the boat with Trump Great again as well.
Relax William. Fat Donnie has your backsde. No one is taking away your Fat Macs and Whoppers – the “experts” are merely recommending you eat fewer of them! You don’t have to listen!
RFK Jr is a more serious threat to your beef addiction! Fortunately, Big Donnie stands between RFK Jr and his beef hate!
from the Nature artcle: ++++Can you guess the top three emitting cities in this analysis? Hint: They’re where the most mouths to feed are: New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. When adjusted for emissions per capita, though, researchers found little connection between how much a town eats and its climate impact.
Types William: So, three massive Dem cities full of lots of climate cultists. Weird!++++
Science Denier (SciDen) William ignores that PEOPLE live in cities and eat beef! Most Americans (80%) live in urban areas! The CO2 and methane emissions their carnivorousness ia held responsible for originates where the cattle are – rural areas!
Nutritionists, scientists and doctors recommend that Americans eat less meat.
What science is being denied?