21st Century Citizen is talking today about the PB&J Campaign. Apparently, eating peanut butter and jelly sammiches can save the planet!
From the PB&J Campaign website:
Next time you have one you’ll reduce your carbon footprint by saving the equivalent of 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based lunch like a hamburger, a tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, or chicken nuggets.
That’s about forty percent of what you’d save driving around for the day in a hybrid instead of a standard sedan.
If you were going to have a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you save the equivalent almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.
there is jelly in my peanut butter…………..
I’m wondering if they count caloric equivalence. Two PB&J sammiches ain’t doing much for my hunger, but a Wendy’s Baconator takes care of everything.
I’m with Dean on this one.
The Baconator does in deed take care of everything. However, I think the article is talking about the cost to produce the peanut butter and not so much the caloric intake. I wonder what the comparison would look like if you had enough peanut butter to match the caloric intake of a Baconator.