Crunching the Numbers on a Vegan in a Hummer
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Line Break
Author: Kenji Lopez-Alt (41 Articles)
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is a contributing editor for Cooks Illustrated Magazine, runs a private chef business, KA Cuisine, and writes a weekly column on burgers and food science for SeriousEats.com. He is also an occasional co-host of America's Test Kitchen . Kenji holds a BS from MIT and lives with his wife in Harlem.
“A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius,” says Michael Pollan in this recent story from Reuters, in which he calculates the carbon footprint of a Big Mac
Unfortunately, it’s not true. Follow the link above for the real numbers.
test