They really cannot help themselves, their cult has ruined their minds
Burger vs. Bratwurst: A Climate Guide to Your July 4 Cookout
Beef is a July 4 staple: Americans bought more than a billion dollars of it for last year’s holiday, far more than they spent on pork or chicken.
But for grill masters who want to take the climate into account, nearly everything other than beef starts to look better. Here’s our guide.
They don’t, go mind you f’ing business, cultists
A quarter-pound beef patty takes about 6.8 kilograms of carbon dioxide-equivalent to produce, according to a meta-analysis of hundreds of studies on food production. An equally sized bratwurst sausage made from pork would take a little over one kilogram. That means one burger is equivalent to about 5.5 bratwursts — not counting the bread, tomatoes or any of the stylings.
So, we can have both?
This isn’t a perfect measure. It’s difficult to calculate the exact emissions that go into different foods. And we’re looking at global medians; food emissions vary widely depending exactly on how and where you produce the beef (or pork, or fish).
But, the measurements do not matter, because this is a doomsday cult and facts do not matter. And then paragraph after paragraph of wacko cult ravings, ending with
All those numbers point to the fact that the biggest change Americans can make to their diets’ planetary footprint is cutting beef. Just replacing beef (and lamb) with pork and poultry could reduce diet greenhouse gas emissions anywhere from 10 to 40 percent, one analysis found. Some people seem to be making the switch already: Americans eat less beef than they did in the 1980s and ’90s. Chicken consumption, meanwhile, is up.
Just for this, I’ll light a too big stack of charcoal (instead of the gas grill) and grill up a bunch of burgers and all-beef hot dogs and hope the grill is still burning when I light up the fireworks. For once the worthless rag from NYC has inspired me