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Title: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Sanguine on August 12, 2019, 03:58:03 pm
And, there it is:

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Would you stop eating beef to save the planet? 02:44

(CNN)Americans will need to cut their average consumption of beef by about 40% and Europeans by 22%, for the world to continue to feed the 10 billion people expected to live on this planet in 2050, according to a new report.
That means each person could have about a burger and a half each week.

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The meatless burger revolution is just getting started

This calculation comes from the World Resources Institute, a global research nonprofit that supports better use of natural resources to sustain a growing population. Its research looks at agriculture, the climate crisis, poverty and gender, among other topics....

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/17/health/beef-environment-resources-report/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-08-03T11%3A01%3A09&utm_term=link

HT @kevindavis
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: LMAO on August 12, 2019, 04:15:35 pm
And, there it is:

HT @kevindavis

We have a local pub that serves delicious wild rice burgers. They also brew beer on site.  I have no problem ordering it and it’s probably just the one  time that I feel like a leftist
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: truth_seeker on August 12, 2019, 04:17:22 pm
"Americans will need to cut their average consumption of beef by about 40% and Europeans by 22%,"

I am wiling to further cut my beefr consumption, but since I am presently not eating any Europeans, I'm afraid I can't help with cuts there.
 
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: goatprairie on August 12, 2019, 06:19:18 pm
I promise to cut back on my hamburger consumption. Because it's getting in the way of my steak consumption, barbecued chicken,  and barbecued pork consumption.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: rustynail on August 12, 2019, 06:21:39 pm
Be thankful there are people who know what we need.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: musiclady on August 12, 2019, 06:22:07 pm
We have a local pub that serves delicious wild rice burgers. They also brew beer on site.  I have no problem ordering it and it’s probably just the one  time that I feel like a leftist

That's OK.  Sometimes we Conservatives eat healthy too.  happy77
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Bigun on August 12, 2019, 06:24:41 pm
I promise to cut back on my hamburger consumption. Because it's getting in the way of my steak consumption, barbecued chicken,  and barbecued pork consumption.

 :yowsa: pointing-up
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 06:25:21 pm
We have a local pub that serves delicious wild rice burgers. They also brew beer on site.  I have no problem ordering it and it’s probably just the one  time that I feel like a leftist

That explains it... They get you drunk enough to accept the term 'rice burger' as being a valid concept.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 06:26:01 pm
I am wiling to further cut my beefr consumption, but since I am presently not eating any Europeans, I'm afraid I can't help with cuts there.

HA!
 :beer:
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 06:27:16 pm
That's OK.  Sometimes we Conservatives eat healthy too.  happy77

I have NO idea what you mean.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: godblessRonaldReagan on August 12, 2019, 06:34:05 pm
They can have my hamburger and a half after they pry it from my cold, dead hand.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 06:38:02 pm
I am sitting here having a smashed burger and onion rings reading this ridiculous farticle.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: andy58-in-nh on August 12, 2019, 06:38:56 pm
I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger-and-a-half today.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Bigun on August 12, 2019, 06:42:30 pm
I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger-and-a-half today.

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68eue5cpbsE&feature=youtu.be#)
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: dfwgator on August 12, 2019, 07:05:00 pm
Ok....

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Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: dfwgator on August 12, 2019, 07:06:23 pm
That's OK.  Sometimes we Conservatives eat healthy too.  happy77

Eat the meat,   not the bun......That's healthy.   It's the carbs that are unhealthy.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 07:08:14 pm
Ok....

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 :silly: :silly: :silly:

That's right.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 07:08:54 pm
Eat the meat,   not the bun......That's healthy.   It's the carbs that are unhealthy.

Then it's not a burger.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: musiclady on August 12, 2019, 07:25:12 pm
I have NO idea what you mean.

It's all about balance.  I eat burgers and steaks once in a while, but I eat lots of veggies and fruits, and not many carbs.

In fact, yesterday I had a Red Robin 'Shroom burger with fries, and enjoyed the heck out of it.

But right now I am eating carrots and celery as an afternoon snack.

Balance.

I'm healthy and I like EVERYTHING!   happy77
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: musiclady on August 12, 2019, 07:26:44 pm
Eat the meat,   not the bun......That's healthy.   It's the carbs that are unhealthy.

See my above post.

Balance.

Low carbs.  Lots of exercise.  Plenty of healthy stuff.

(Vegetables aren't liberal.  :laugh:)
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 08:04:36 pm
It's all about balance.  I eat burgers and steaks once in a while, but I eat lots of veggies and fruits, and not many carbs.

In fact, yesterday I had a Red Robin 'Shroom burger with fries, and enjoyed the heck out of it.

But right now I am eating carrots and celery as an afternoon snack.

Balance.

I'm healthy and I like EVERYTHING!   happy77

Oh I like plenty of greens. My burgers are always fully loaded... Except Mushroom-Swiss Burgers and Western Burgers, which are preserved for their purity.

And Jalapenos... pumped full of cream cheese, breaded and pitched in the deep fryer...
And mushrooms... breaded and deep fried.

See... Plenty of greens.. Healthy.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: dfwgator on August 12, 2019, 08:16:19 pm
See my above post.

Balance.

Low carbs.  Lots of exercise.  Plenty of healthy stuff.

(Vegetables aren't liberal.  :laugh:)

Actually since I went Keto I am eating more veggies than ever, but still plenty of meat.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: corbe on August 12, 2019, 08:17:09 pm
   I don't have a dog in this hunt since I don't eat fast food anyway, but come after my Beef Enchiladas and there's gonna be trouble.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 08:22:09 pm
   I don't have a dog in this hunt since I don't eat fast food anyway, but come after my Beef Enchiladas and there's gonna be trouble.

Are we talking fast food? I didn't get that... I was talking grillin my own.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Polly Ticks on August 12, 2019, 08:25:17 pm
"Americans will need to cut their average consumption of beef by about 40% and Europeans by 22%,"

I am wiling to further cut my beefr consumption, but since I am presently not eating any Europeans, I'm afraid I can't help with cuts there.


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Well done, sir!  (Or medium-rare, whatever you prefer.)
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Sanguine on August 12, 2019, 08:29:09 pm
Actually since I went Keto I am eating more veggies than ever, but still plenty of meat.

Same here.  Meat and veggies.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 08:31:26 pm
Same here.  Meat and veggies.

Me too... all wrapped up in a big pretzel roll.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: libertybele on August 12, 2019, 08:34:13 pm
Nope.  IF I decide to have a burger I'm going to have one.  I haven't had a burger in a couple of months; I have steak once in a blue moon, chicken, chicken breast, pork, veggies and fruit. I try hard to watch the carbs, but I also need some energy.  I normally walk 1.5 miles just about every day at a pretty good clip and I do two sets of 5 minute energy bursting exercises most days.  Definitely not willing to have the gov't tell me what I need to do to save the planet; I'm too busy trying to save me! 
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: corbe on August 12, 2019, 08:37:18 pm
Nope.  IF I decide to have a burger I'm going to have one.  I haven't had a burger in a couple of months; I have steak once in a blue moon, chicken, chicken breast, pork, veggies and fruit. I try hard to watch the carbs, but I also need some energy.  I normally walk 1.5 miles just about every day at a pretty good clip and I do two sets of 5 minute energy bursting exercises most days.  Definitely not willing to have the gov't tell me what I need to do to save the planet; I'm too busy trying to save me! 


   I really do envy your Diet and Exercise routine @libertybele wish I had such a desire to live longer, sometimes.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Fishrrman on August 12, 2019, 10:14:36 pm
Not a vegetarian by any means, but it's been quite a while since I had a hamburger. I avoid most fried food, as well...
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: EdJames on August 12, 2019, 10:27:36 pm
Will usually grill hamberders once every week or so...  I usually eat two cheeseburgers....  rarely have them out....
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Bigun on August 12, 2019, 10:37:50 pm
Will usually grill hamberders once every week or so...  I usually eat two cheeseburgers....  rarely have them out....

I have a burger (one) with all the trimmings at least twice a month.  All the trimmings includes cheese and jalapeños.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 10:50:51 pm
Will usually grill hamberders once every week or so...  I usually eat two cheeseburgers....  rarely have them out....

Yep. Me too. One 1/3lb burger, with fries or onion rings... Tater tots if I am running low. But I am on the grill more than once a week. Shoot, as long as there ain't 3 ft of snow and whiteout conditions, I am probably grillin.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: EdJames on August 12, 2019, 10:57:18 pm
Yep. Me too. One 1/3lb burger, with fries or onion rings... Tater tots if I am running low. But I am on the grill more than once a week. Shoot, as long as there ain't 3 ft of snow and whiteout conditions, I am probably grillin.

Yes, grill often....  most weeks will have on various evenings:

- the hamberders
- chicken
- steak fish, usually salmon lately
- steak

Often adding some grilled vegetables to go along....
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: roamer_1 on August 12, 2019, 11:19:20 pm
Yes, grill often....  most weeks will have on various evenings:

- the hamberders
- chicken
- steak fish, usually salmon lately
- steak

Often adding some grilled vegetables to go along....

A lot of venison for me... Running real low on elk, and out of moose... Do some buffalo, when I get the chance, which is normally just burger... Still have about a quarter beef in the freezer too, other than hamburger of which I've a butt-ton... grilled burger in stir-fry is pretty normal.

Don't do much chicken- Something about store bought makes me gag, and we ain't been running meat birds as much, so what I get of chicken is yearling rooster or something I traded from the Hutterites... But I DO have quail, chinks, and grouse.

Chinook salmon and trout (cutthroat and rainbow mostly, some brookies), always in the smoke... perch, whitefish, bass, and pike too, but white meated fish usually just fried up in the pan.

And yeah, always drag em through the garden.
 :beer:
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: libertybele on August 13, 2019, 12:13:13 am

   I really do envy your Diet and Exercise routine @libertybele wish I had such a desire to live longer, sometimes.


...I do hear ya on that one ... just when I thought things were finally just starting to look up...my day truly, truly sucked and don't see things turning around  8888crybaby
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Sanguine on August 13, 2019, 12:16:43 am

...I do hear ya on that one ... just when I thought things were finally just starting to look up...my day truly, truly sucked and don't see things turning around  8888crybaby

Oh, no.  Hopefully it will pass?
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: libertybele on August 13, 2019, 02:22:32 am
Oh, no.  Hopefully it will pass?

I keep praying.  :0001:
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: Sanguine on August 13, 2019, 02:39:41 am
I keep praying.  :0001:

Please accept mine also.
Title: Re: To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week
Post by: libertybele on August 13, 2019, 02:43:47 am
Please accept mine also.

Thank you.