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Consider Taking The Turkey Out Of The Turkey Dinner
Meat and meat byproducts (cheese, butter and heavy cream, for example) have a larger environmental footprint than plant-based ingredients. 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. But Paul Fischbeck, who worked on the study and a professor in Carnegie Mellon’s department of Social and Decision Sciences, noted that turkey is better than other meat, such as beef: “Turkeys themselves are pretty efficient in getting them grown.”
and someone is actually getting paid for such studies and with your money
The article itself is actually pretty informative and balanced. Far from "nutbaggery," whatever that is.
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It turns out that your food isn’t the biggest holiday culprit of carbon dioxide emissions — traveling for the meal is.
No one should be discouraged from enjoying the holiday or celebrating with family and friends, but we’re here to provide insight into the ingredients and dishes that have the largest ecological impact. The researchers we interviewed shared suggestions and alternative ingredients that cause less environmental damage.
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The day before Thanksgiving is always the busiest day of the year at most big airports, so worrying about the carbon footprint of a turkey meal seems silly. We'll stick to our traditional turkey (23 lbs.) with gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, homemade yeast rolls/butter, Sweet Potato pie and the rest.
The day before Thanksgiving is always the busiest day of the year at most big airports, so worrying about the carbon footprint of a turkey meal seems silly. We'll stick to our traditional turkey (23 lbs.) with gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, homemade yeast rolls/butter, Sweet Potato pie and the rest.
I stopped traveling on turkey day for that reason...well that and my aversion to being shook down and gropped by TSA gate rapers.
Who knew I was helping fight climate change too?!
That's ridiculous. If anything, it'd be nice if more people would voluntarily strive to reduce meat and dairy consumption even a little throughout most of the year, but go all out during holidays. That's what they're meant for.
We need to stop eating and die.. we are all going to be dead in 12 years according to AOC anyway.
She should know. She's been brain dead for 12 years already.
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and with your money 
