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Besides beef and lamb? |
| Wendell Gee |
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Source? |
| Azaleas |
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so it has a larger footprint than anything else, except for two major sources of protein? What are you trying to say? |
| Traveler |
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Cows have two stomachs and for some reason I don't know that leads to huge amounts of methane farts, no joke. Methane has something like 20 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide. I don't know if goats, for example, have two stomachs. I know legumes dont. |
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Because when you step on cheese, it squishes and spreads all over the place. |
| got any cheeeeeese? |
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but cows grazing keeps the grass short allowing nitrogen to escape and coutner-act the effects of the methan in the atmosphere. |
| the banana |
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Cheese's large carbon footprint can be attributed to 2 major factors: 1)The milk used in most cheeses comes from cows, which release methane (CH4) gas upon digestion. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. and 2)after the cows have been milked, that milk requires a considerable amount of processing (using energy) to make cheese, plus refrigeration for shipping/storage. |
| milky cheesy poofs |
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Peeps engulf way too much milks and devour massive quantities of cheeses. "A 2002 life cycle assessment of a popular Swedish semi-hard cheese (the Seussian-sounding Ängsgården Hushållsost) found that milk alone accounted for 94 percent of the total greenhouse gases—not to mention 99 percent of the acidic compounds, 93 percent of the smog-creating particles, and nearly 100 percent of the substances that contribute to eutrophication, a kind of fish-killing nutrient pollution." SOURCE: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_green_lantern/2009/12/soft_cheese_for_a_clean_planet.html |
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Wow, and some people drink that stuff! |
| Will E |
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The term "carbon footprint" is bullshit and you're gay for using it. |
| Azaleas |
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you sure told him. I bet he's going to cry in gym class |