Leave it to the brainiacs to ruin a perfectly good thing. Jamais Cascio, author of the blog Open the Future, has determined the carbon footprint of a cheeseburger and you're about to feel really guilty.
At 2.85-3.1 kg of CO2 (equiv) per burger, then, that's 428-465 kg of greenhouse gas per year for an average American's burger consumption.
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...adding in the methane, the overall CO2-equivalent emissions from all the cheeseburgers consumed in the US (assuming the average of 3/person is accurate) roughly equal the greenhouse output of 100,000 SUVs.
Well, that's depressing. Of course, there are well over 100,000 SUVs on the road, so if we could just convince 100k SUV-owners to use public transportation then we can eat with a clear conscience.
Hey Adam, I just had a really really good chain burger at Pizzeria Uno of all places. They have good sliders too. If you do another chain restuarant burger story, you need to put Uno on the list. Trust me, it's good! They cooked it medium rare too!
doesn't bother me 1 iota... it's junk science of the worst kind... typical liberal scare tactics.. I'll go on eating as many burgers as I ever have and feel damn good about it. If I believed all the crap the left put out, I'd be a vegan.
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Hey Adam, I just had a really really good chain burger at Pizzeria Uno of all places. They have good sliders too. If you do another chain restuarant burger story, you need to put Uno on the list. Trust me, it's good! They cooked it medium rare too!
Hamburger Weekly Journalist at 8:43PM on 01/06/07
What an unfortunate comment, considering the topic.
Hamburger Keith W. at 3:01PM on 01/08/07
doesn't bother me 1 iota... it's junk science of the worst kind... typical liberal scare tactics.. I'll go on eating as many burgers as I ever have and feel damn good about it. If I believed all the crap the left put out, I'd be a vegan.
Hamburger J.D. at 6:00AM on 01/16/07