Peanut Butter sandwich can save the world. No, really.

[Hamlette]

The next time you pack this all-American sandwich for lunch, you're helping the environment and making a difference in animal welfare. You don't have to change your whole diet to change the world. Just start with lunch.

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.
A PB&J will also save water.

That's about 280 gallons of water over the hamburger. To put this in perspective, three PB&Js a month instead of hamburgers will save about as much water as switching to a low-flow showerhead.

http://www.pbjcampaign.org/

[itsrobert]

1. Except if you eat peanut butter

It causes you to be thirsty more, thus causing you to drink more water.

[mcscajun]

2. Water? If I'm eating PB&J, gimme dat chocolate milk!

Keep nassssty water. (channelling Gollum there for a moment)

Just kidding; I love water, drink lots of it. Just not with Peanut Butter. :hi:

[rucky]

3. Tuna sandwiches give off carbon emissions?

damn.

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. i don't know if it's carbon

but I've been known to have a few "emissions" after eating peanut butter.

[villager]

4. The eaters of industrially-provided meat don't get it... yet

But when the "true costs" are charged -- for the amount of "energy input" that goes in to each pound o' flesh...they will

[hobbit709]

7. Are you throwing in the costs

of fertilizer, fuel for seeding and harvesting, energy used in processing-because if you're not then you're comparing aples and oranges.

[villager]

11. if you mean for the peanut butter, consider all of that goes into the feed for meat animals

and *then* there are the additional inputs for raising them, slaughtering them, shipping them, etc.

Apples and more apples, really...

[AlCzervik]

5. Ok but i want Peanut butter and fluff--does that work?

[rucky]

9. I think fluff may be a petrolium product.

Velveeta, too.

[hobbit709]

6. UGH!

One of the few things I can't stand the taste of is peanut butter.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Except I've been hearing horror stories

about salmonella in peanut butter. Yikes--what can we eat anymore? During the summer, I like to eat salads everyday for dinner, but after last summer's spinach scare, I'm queasy. I've already given up all beef, and limit my chicken or fish intake to three small servings a week. I'm constantly on the watch for healthy good tasting safe foods, but they seem harder and harder to find....

[irish.lambchop]

12. Pasta salads -

I live on them all summer, lunch and dinner. If you grown your own veggies, you'll know it's safe and ANYTHING can be tossed in a pasta salad.

[senseandsensibility]

17. Good idea.

I need to start growing my own veggies. Thanks. I just hope none of the pasta has been infected with Chinese wheat gluten...

[kestrel91316]

20. the thing with the Salmonella in the PB was due to a water leak at a

processing plant that went uncorrected and spread contamination unnecessarily.

Salmonella-tainted PB is NOT an industry-wide problem making people sick on a regular basis.

[kirby]

13. Only one problem...

For some reason it seems the children of this nation are increasing allergic to nuts. I dont remember any of this allergy business 20-30 years ago.

[Gormy Cuss]

15. True. PB sandwiches are banned from some schools to accommodate allergic kids.

One elementary school in my area has a ban on all peanut products on campus because one student is severely allergic to them.

[donco6]

14. But listening to parents lately, all kids are going to die . . .

from eating peanuts.

[flvegan]

16. Excellent post.

Recommended.

[Kansas Wyatt]

18. PB&J is all I ever eat for lunch.

Unless I eat out for lunch, which is rarely, I only eat PB&J and never get tired of it. It's cheap and you don't have to worry about it spoiling. Besides, processed meat repulses me.

[PDJane]

19. good thing.........

You don't want to know how all that nicely processed meat gets from the animal to the package. If you're really interested, google "mechanically deboned meat." And I don't wanna discuss it.

[liberal renegade]

21. grilled pb&j with ice cold milk....