Can a peanut butter and jelly sandwich help stop global warming? According to the PB&J Campaign you can “make a difference one lunch at a time."
The rationale: eating more vegetables and less meat lowers your carbon footprint. Our reliance on fuel, fertilizer, the huge swaths of land required to raise animals and the methane, which is a by product of animal waste, all contribute to global warming.
The PB&J folks certainly aren’t the only ones pointing out that a low-carb diet means more than just scarfing protein three times a day. The Center for Science in the Public interest even has a Eating Green calculator that helps you determine how your eating habits impact the environment. So go ahead, make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and see if you can shrink your carbon footprint even just a little.
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Quick -- someone fix the link to that Eating Green calculator. I gotta see if my peanut-butter-and-jelly-every-single-day-for-the-past-two-years kid is singlehandedly saving the environment.
Try it now, Kristen! :-)
sure, save the planet, get salmonella ;-)
it's a tradeoff!
but then again, I am utterly disgusted by peanut butter, so just call me a pb&j hater!
Just make sure you buy organic peanut butter, peanuts are one of the most highly sprayed crops out there.
I'm a pb&j hater. I like the ingredients separately on toast, but putting them together tastes icky to me.
um, in other words: become a vegetarian?
which reminds me--i was very inspired by folks who went vegan for lent last year. is anyone doing that this year?
So how do almond and cashew butter compare? They are both available and you can get them organic, but I think PB is cheaper. I also think almond butter is less allergenic and easier on the environment. But I'm not sure where I got that idea.
Love, love, love almond butter. It costs about a dollar more than my favorite PB (I use Laura Scudder Natural PB and Trader Joe's Almond butter).
Given that 1 in 5 kids is allergic to peanut butter, I want to see how fast this campaign gets shut down.
i made my own almond butter today! just roasted some almonds and used my immersion blender to pureed them. it's divine.
i might try to make my own peanut butter next, since over here in italy it's mighty hard to find any decent peanut butter. and i can't import enough in my suitcase to keep up with my PB & honey habit.