Yeah, I’m on a green kick lately… So sue me… Regardless, I read an article that gave me pause…
Basically it has to do with the fact that cooking meat is a large contributor to atmospheric pollution. If one were concerned with how much pollutants they contribute to the atmosphere, consider this… Some estimates go so far to say that cooking one normal sized hamburger emits roughly the same amount of volatile organic compounds (includes formaldehyde and acetaldehyde among others) into the atmosphere as driving an average current model car 250 miles.
To equate it to something… It’s estimated that 16,000 restaurants in New Jersey pollute more than all of the heavy diesel vehicles in the state.
The EPA is studying these claims. California has began implementing regulations on certain cooking devices in the same way that catalytic converters are regulated and required on the exhaust systems of automobiles.
Maybe Morgan Spurlock and Al Gore need to get together to make “An Inconvenient Super Size”
3 Comments
1 Rikki wrote:
Nice. For the record, both Camden’s Bayview Cinema and Rockland’s The Strand told me that EVERY showing of An Inconvenient Truth has outsold every previous film’s best night. And the night in which the film was preceded by a lecture by a dude from Natural Resources Council of Maine was the Strand’s only movie sell-out since opening night. An Encouraging Truth.
Do you have any interesting in this electric car movie?
2 B wrote:
Yes, I do want to see that movie. in fact there has been a lot of press on automotive sites and environmental sites about fully electric cars that are both concepts and actually coming to market. I’m really jazzed about the possible future of them…
Check out teslamotor.com and see the very cool car that IS going into production. They will be producing a sedan next.
I know I’ll be dedicating some time to a more indepth post on the topic soon…
3 Hungry Hank wrote:
All I can say it … Make mine a DOUBLE cheeseburger!