Posted on Saturday, 16th February 2008 by R.J.
I’ll admit it. I’m a big fan of making peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. They’re easy to make and they’re cheap.
But did you know that eating one can help save the environment? Well, if you believe everything Larry West says, that is.
In his article, he outlines the following points:
- By eating PB&J for lunch over a hamburger you save almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Including 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide. Which is about 40% of the carbon you would save by driving a hybrid vehicle every day.
- Every time you substitute a PB&J sandwich for a hamburger you save approximately 280 gallons of water that would be used to water the cow the hamburger came from.
- Animal products require 6 to 17 times as much land as soy to get the same amount of protein. Eating a PB&J sandwich saves as much as 12 to 50 square feet of land from deforestation, overgrazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution.
I think I’ll go make me one right now. Not because I’m trying to save the world, but because I’m hungry and PB&J is delicious.
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