posted January 13, 2008 07:39 PM         

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A PB&J will slow global warming.

Next time you have one you'll reduce your carbon footprint by saving the equivalent of 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based lunch like a hamburger, a tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, or chicken nuggets.

That's about forty percent of what you'd save driving around for the day in a hybrid instead of a standard sedan.

If you have a PB&J instead of a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you save the equivalent almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.
A PB&J will also save water.

That's about 280 gallons of water over the hamburger. To put this in perspective, three PB&Js a month instead of hamburgers will save about as much water as switching to a low-flow showerhead.
A PB&J will save land.

Have a PB&J and save 12 to 50 square feet of land from deforestation, over-grazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution.

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How One Lunch Helps the Environment

It's all based on eating lower on the food chain.
Everything we eat comes from plants.

No matter what you eat – beef or barley, chicken or chickpeas, pork or peanut butter - all of it comes from plants.

We eat some of the plants directly - the barley, the chickpeas, the peanut butter - and we eat some of it converted by animals into meat, eggs, and milk.
Animals are inefficient.

The basic problem is that animals are inefficient at converting plants into meat, milk, and eggs. Relatively little of what they eat ends up in what you eat because animals use their food to keep them alive – to fuel their muscles so they can stand up and walk around, to keep their hearts beating, to keep their brains working.
The result is that it takes several pounds of corn and soy to produce one pound of beef, or one pound of eggs, one pound of milk, etc. The same goes for protein, calories, or other nutrients.

That cow, pig, or chicken has to eat a lot more protein, carbohydrates, and other nutrients than it yields in meat, eggs, or milk.

It also takes several times what it took to grow those plants: several times more land, several times more water, a lot more fertilizers and pesticides, not to mention diesel and gasoline to operate the machinery, pump the water for irrigation, and produce the chemicals.

That’s why the water it takes to produce the beef on one hamburger could pruduce peanuts for about 17 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and the land that it takes to produce that beef could produce peanuts for 19 PB&Js.

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posted March 24, 2008 09:15 PM         

Yes it is good. It is more expensive than PB but healthier for you anyways.