{"id":2073,"date":"2014-09-23T14:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2014-09-23T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:14:19","slug":"beefy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=2073","title":{"rendered":"Beefy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across yet another person in an <a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.boingboing.net\/t\/urban-living-and-carbon-footprints\/41561\">online forum<\/a> saying &#8220;The single best thing the average U.S. resident can do to help the environment is become vegetarian\/vegan.&#8221;  When looking for a citation better than my own vague <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=740\">ruminations<\/a>, I found this excellent page:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"pJZaMNo70k\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/shrinkthatfootprint.com\/food-carbon-footprint-diet\/\">The Carbon Foodprint of 5 Diets Compared<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Carbon Foodprint of 5 Diets Compared&#8221; &#8212; Shrink That Footprint\" src=\"https:\/\/shrinkthatfootprint.com\/food-carbon-footprint-diet\/embed\/#?secret=6SkDUkk8WR#?secret=pJZaMNo70k\" data-secret=\"pJZaMNo70k\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their numbers are pretty close to mine!  Also, notably, those pie charts confirm what I&#8217;d suspected: that the real issue is not meat, but beef.  The footprint of a beef-avoiding carnivore is shown as 1.9 tons\/year, only .2 tons higher than the 1.7 tons assigned to a vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>And, it remains clear that diet is pretty small potatoes compared to heat and travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across yet another person in an online forum saying &#8220;The single best thing the average U.S. resident can do to help the environment is become vegetarian\/vegan.&#8221; When looking for a citation better than my own vague ruminations, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=2073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}