The New York Times Magazine on Sunday devoted the entire issue to a "low-carbon catalog" of ideas for the environmentally inclined. However, as Folio magazine notes, it was printed on new, wasteful paper, not recycled pulp.
The villain of the piece? Cows. According to Dr. Solomon, Americans' animal-based foods generate "a third as much as their car produces" in greenhouse gases. Cows come in for even more blame than pigs and other critters, because cows emit copious amounts of methane and nitrous oxide, Solomon said. This means that the bacon in your bacon cheeseburger pales as an environmental menace compared to the cheese and the beef.
National Public Radio kicked off its Earth Week on Monday with "a series of conversations about food's footprint."
In the first installment on Monday, Alex Chadwick talked to Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, "about how the food we eat contributes to greenhouse gases."
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