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Article Title: The Greenhouse Hamburger Author/Source: Nathan Fiala A: List the major ideas, concepts or key points-

point by point - Producing beef for the table has a surprising environmental cost: it releases prodigious amounts of heat trapping greenhouse gases. - Pound for pound, beef production generates greenhouse gases that contribute more than 13 times as much to global warming as do the gases emitted from producing chickens. For potatoes, the multiplier is 57. - Beef consumption is rising rapidly, both as population increases and as people eat more meat. - Producing the annual beef diet of the average American emits as much greenhouse gas as a car driven more than 1,800 miles. - Our diets and, specifically, the meat in them cause more greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxide, and the like to spew into the atmosphere than either transportation or industry. - Producing a pound of beef protein for the table requires more than 10 pounds of plant protein with all the emissions of greenhouse gases that grain farming entails. - Producing a pound of pork generates the equivalent of 3.8 pounds of CO2; a pound of chicken generates 1.1 pounds of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gases. - What can be done?

- Improving waste management and farming practices would certainly reduce the carbon footprint or beef production. - Methane capturing systems, for instance, can put cows waste to use in generating electricity. - To some degree, after all, our diets are a choice. By choosing more wisely, we can make a difference. - Eating locally produced food can reduce the need for transport = though food inefficiently shipped in small batches on trucks from nearby farms can turn out to save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions. - And in the U.S. and the rest of the developed world, people could eat less meat, particularly beef. - We ought to give careful thought to diet and its consequences for the planet if we are serious about limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases. B: Summarize the AUTHORs main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs This article is about how our diets and, specifically, the meat in them cause more greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxide, and the like to spew into the atmosphere than either transportation or industry. Producing a pound of beef protein for the table requires more than 10 pounds of plant protein with all the emissions of greenhouse gases that grain farming entails. Producing the annual beef diet of the average American emits as much greenhouse gas as a car driven more than 1,800 miles. Producing beef for the table has a surprising environmental cost: it releases prodigious amounts of heat trapping greenhouse gases. Producing a pound of pork generates the equivalent of 3.8 pounds of CO2; a pound of chicken generates 1.1 pounds of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gases.

C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views After reading this article I was really surprised. Thats true as the author said Producing beef for the table has a surprising environmental cost: it releases prodigious amounts of heat trapping greenhouse gases. That was really surprised. I used to think that the most effective in the atmosphere is from cars, trucks, any automobiles. This article taught me a lesson that To some degree, after all, our diets are a choice. By choosing more wisely, we can make a difference. Eating locally produced food can reduce the need for transport = though food inefficiently shipped in small batches on trucks from nearby farms can turn out to save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions. We need to take an action to reduce the greenhouse gases; we need to save our environment, our Earth, which is our home. We ought to give careful thought to diet and its consequences for the planet if we are serious about limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases, the author said. So What? Meat Beef, chicken, pork -> Greenhouse gases What If? Everyone works together to reduce greenhouse gases by eating less meat? -> Save surprisingly little in greenhouse emissions. What Does This Remind Me Of? How I always could help to reduce greenhouse gases. Says Who? Nathan Fiala Susan Subak

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