Things that go MOO

For our New Year's resolution this year, Angiela and I (wife, designer, light of my life) decided to forgo BEEF for one year. I was looking for a way to be better about practicing what I preach and make sustainability less of a job and more of a lifestyle.

No beef: No steak, no beef ribs, no cheeseburgers. Don't get me wrong, I do love a good burger, but this is an experiment in carbon footprinting and will power. Chickens are good, pigs (I like to eat them), just no beef. No burger was going to get the better of me.

My wife has been better than I (ok, the burger won a couple of times) but so far here is the tally:
according to the EPA, we've taken the equivalent of 210 cars off the road so far or saved 130,000 gallons of gas.

Me aside, did you see that? I'll do it again: cheeseburger.
Yes. that's a link to a site where someone has done AND SHOWN all the math to calculate the carbon footprint of a cheeseburger.
Incredible.
Valiant even.

The internet is a strange and wonderful place.