If you’re like me, you’re tired of looking for ways to help global warming and only finding instructions to use compact florescent light bulbs. Like I haven’t been doing that for 10 years?
But here’s a new one that I can totally get behind: eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Besides the obvious reasons (they’re so gooood), you can help the planet. Look what you save when you choose a PB&J:
- 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based lunch like a hamburger, a tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, or chicken nuggets
- Almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas compared to a ham sandwich or a hamburger
- 280 gallons of water over the hamburger
- 12 to 50 square feet of land from deforestation, over-grazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution
- A whole bunch of fuel compared to wild-caught seafood
- A whole bunch of fuel, pollution, antibiotics, hormones, and other really bad stuff over factory-farmed fish
The people at the PB&J Campaign are starting PB&J clubs. Email them at pbj@pbjcampaign.org if you want to start one of your own in your workplace or school.
Buck and I like our peanut butter extra crunchy and our bread whole-grain. Like Elvis, we enjoy a PB & Banana, but hold the mayo and don’t fry it.
If I ever saw anybody put mayo on a PB&J I would have to slap them, I did have a friend who’s whole family would put mayo on their tacos!
He used to tell me if it’s good enough for a hamburger it’s good enough for a taco.
Yummm… I love me some lightly-toasted whole grain bread, high-omega-3, no transfat peanut butter, with pure honey sammiches.