Fight Global Warming and Get a Big Mac
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 09. 5.07
As Jasmin noted earlier, "Your average quarter pounder, siphons 600 gallons of water, 1.2 pounds of feed grain, and 6 square feet of former prairie land—plus the loss of five times the patty's weight in topsoil—even before it gets slapped on a grill." Collin noted that a cheeseburger has a carbon footprint of about 6.5 pounds of emissions.
So what are they doing in Japan? The Environment Ministry and McDonalds are giving half-price Big Macs to people who pledge to fight global warming. So many people took up the offer that the website crashed.
Reminds us of the Eco-Center raffling off a Hummer, sort of sending mixed messages. ::Yahoo News
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Yes, it's a worldwide stupidity problem.
It's things like this that make it worth getting up in the morning! The funny thing is they won't even get the irony.