Yet another study has shown that eating beef significantly adds to your carbon footprint. In 'Meat production beefs up emissions' (Thursday July 19 Guardian Unlimited) it states that per 1kg (2.2lbs) of beef produced 'The emissions are equivalent to the amount of CO2 released by an average car every 160 miles, plus the energy consumption is equal to a 100W bulb being left on for 20 days' & that 'producing the meat caused substantial amounts of greenhouse gases & other pollutants', because 'the production of 1kg of beef releases greenhouse gases with a warming potential equivalent to 36.4kg of carbon dioxide'.
This would mean that per 1kg of beef eaten you'd have to offset by purchasing the equivalent of ONE TREE EACH YEAR, because the average offset per mature tree per year is 35kg. Bearing in mind that the beef calculations DID NOT include emissions from farm equipment, or from transporting the meat, or from the effects of DEFORESTATION to clear land for grazing, so...(cont below).
2007-07-29
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