Washington Post: Hey, You Need To Stop Eating So Many Burgers

Someone seriously spent time putting this “study” together. Hopefully not with taxpayer money

Your diet’s impact on the planet depends on where you live. Look up your city.

Researchers have documented for years that eating beef, pork and chicken has a significant environmental impact, especially when it comes to heating the planet.

But it’s far from a uniform impact. What you eat, and where you eat it, can have a big effect on how much you’re contributing to climate change, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

For the first time, researchers calculated the planet-warming pollution emitted from raising the beef, pork and chicken Americans eat — their carbon “hoofprint” — for every town and city in the country.

Across the country, eating beef is the bigger contributor to harmful pollutants. But it’s not as simple as that. Its origins matter. Eating a steak or a burger in Milwaukee, where the meat comes from nearby dairy cows, generates fewer emissions than in Oklahoma City, where beef tends to come from feedlots.

Mind your own business, but, this is interesting

Can you guess the top three emitting cities in this analysis? Hint: They’re where the most mouths to feed are: New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. When adjusted for emissions per capita, though, researchers found little connection between how much a town eats and its climate impact.

So, three massive Dem cities full of lots of climate cultists. Weird!

What lowers the hoofprint?
“You don’t have to cut out any single meat to have really significant shifts in your hoofprint,” Goldstein said, adding that just swapping half of the beef you eat for other protein can move the needle. The researchers modeled impacts to emissions from simple lifestyle changes that can add up to a 51 percent drop in one’s hoofprint.

“The average American eats five servings of beef a week,” Goldstein said. “So, all right, you can still have two burgers a week.” Goldstein is not a vegetarian, he said, and has a burger once in a while.

Or, you can mind your own f’ing business, and leave the rest of us alone.