Thanksgiving Is Canceled Because You’re Killing The Planet

[Ursus Minor]

The latest joy killing decree to be issued from the environmental overlords is that Thanksgiving is canceled because your family meal is killing the planet.

“According to research done by Carnegie Mellon University, the carbon footprint of a 16-pound turkey creates a total of 34.2 pounds of CO2 — the same amount produced by turkey gravy, cranberry sauce, roasted Brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, rolled biscuits and apple pie combined.”

“Plant-based foods consistently have been shown to have lower carbon footprints — so those walnuts, chestnuts, mushrooms, etc. are far more efficient to produce in total resources than conventional animal products, especially red meat,” the report continues.

“Meat and meat byproducts (cheese, butter and heavy cream, for example) have a larger environmental footprint than plant-based ingredients,” complains Alexandra Emanuelli in the Huffington Post.

You can’t actually have a family Thanksgiving at all, unless you all live in a commune and never leave, because traveling is the real evil.

“Researchers at Carnegie Mellon determined that four people flying a 600-mile trip produces 10 times the emissions of the Thanksgiving meal,” the report further whines.

“Driving is less detrimental, but American cars emit close to a pound of CO2 per mile driven. Orchi Banerjee, a recent graduate of the department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon, said, ‘It may help the environment if [your guests] stayed home and cooked their own meal.’”

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[Chu]

They don't know what to invent anymore!

 

[Glenn]

cars emit close to a pound of CO2 per mile

I don't know how that is possible. You wouldn't even burn one pound of gas / mile. And that gas would have to be converted 100% to CO2. Unless I am missing something here.

 

[Pierre]

I don't know how that is possible. You wouldn't even burn one pound of gas / mile. And that gas would have to be converted 100% to CO2. Unless I am missing something here.

Car average fuel economy is about 25 mpg. Therefore for one mile a car consumes 1/25 gallon, which is 0.15 or 1/6 of a liter.

Knowing that 1 liter of petrol weighs 750 grams and petrol consists for 87% of carbon, or 652 grams of carbon per liter of petrol, in order to combust this carbon to CO2, 1740 grammes of oxygen is needed. The sum is then 652 + 1740 = 2392 grammes of CO2/liter of petrol.

Therefore for 1/6 liters of petrol, 399 (2392/6) grams of CO2 are emitted. 399 grams equals 0.88 pounds (there is 453 grams in one pound).

So, indeed cars emit close to a pound of CO2 per mile.

 

[Artex]

“Meat and meat byproducts (cheese, butter and heavy cream, for example) have a larger environmental footprint than plant-based ingredients,” complains Alexandra Emanuelli in the Huffington Post.

“Researchers at Carnegie Mellon determined that four people flying a 600-mile trip produces 10 times the emissions of the Thanksgiving meal,” the report further whines.

“Driving is less detrimental, but American cars emit close to a pound of CO2 per mile driven. Orchi Banerjee, a recent graduate of the department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon, said, ‘It may help the environment if [your guests] stayed home and cooked their own meal.’”

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Of course, all that drivel completely ignore the nutrient density of meat.

 

[seek10]

These reactions to the fake "global warming" in the name of "Climate Change" are more becoming like reactions to the false flag terrorist acts of the past. Before, the characteristics of alleged shooter is the things to control among population - whiteness, Islam, Guns etc. Now it takes the form of vegetarianism, meat reduction, not having children, ditch coal. They could even able to make Amazon as the cause of the "Climate change". We don't know what they can come up with tomorrow.