Experts Shriek That Hamburgers Cause More Pollution Than 18-Wheelers
Charbroiled hamburgers taste too good — and are too quintessentially American — to evade suppression by our liberal rulers. If the piriform Michelle Obama doesn’t find a way to ban them for making us peasants too fat for her liking, then “science” will step in to declare that cooking them poisons the air for the sacred polar bears and spotted owls:
A UC Riverside study found that commercially cooked hamburgers cause more air pollution than diesel trucks.
The study, which focused on commercial charbroilers found in burger restaurants, said the equipment generates grease, smoke, water vapors and combustion products, which emit a large amount of particulate matter into the air.
“For comparison, an 18-wheeler diesel engine truck would have to drive 143 miles on the freeway to put out the same mass of particulates as a single charbroiled hamburger patty,” said Bill Welch, the principle engineer. …
The UCR study is co-funded by the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
That is, taxpayers were yet again forced to fund absurd malarkey that the Nanny State will use to further encroach on every conceivable aspect of our lives.
On a tip from Stormfax.
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Bill Welch can spindle his study, and shove in up his darkside.
I thought the liberal ‘culture of death’ would wait awhile to start the ‘starvation and shortages’ ball rolling…but I guess not. I guess they see now as their last chance to impose Utopia…no matter how many people they have to break to make that omelette.
How about we build the border fence around California, Oregon, and Washington and seal them off from all the Americans with IQ’s higher than their shoe sizes? I’d rather deal with illegals and terrorists than West Coast retards.
They pretty much give the game away when they choose to focus on commercial, er, capitalist chain restaurant hamburgers. They really can’t help themselves, can they?
Another commie hero causing pollution:
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Jeez. Come to my place when I’m smoking a brisket!!
When science becomes just another political tool to further a Leftist agenda, as in this case and so many others, it becomes irrelevant. As we all know, scientists, and their “opinions”, can be bought as cheaply as members of congress.
“For comparison, an 18-wheeler diesel engine truck would have to drive 143 miles on the freeway to put out the same mass of particulates as a single charbroiled hamburger patty,”
Anyone who’s been stuck in traffic behind a diesel truck or city bus knows that is complete bullshit. We taxpayers are paying these political activists to blatantly lie to us.
Lets have a grill out at their next rally! And charge money too. Teach these goofballs that nothing is for free.
So let’s see…
We have been told that cows and their flatulance causes global warming. So to resolve that issue, we are eating the cows. Now even THAT causes global warming?
This is turning into the cancer scare of your generation. Everything causes cancer and everything causes global warming.
All ‘scientific’ studies conducted by government are frauds, as their objective is to enslave Americans to the Stalinist and Vegetarian agenda. Michelle Obama’s plan is to deprive our citizens of protein so that we lack the ability to defend ourselves against the terrorists.
I bet manufacturing plants that process Tofu into Tofurkey mades a whole hell of a lot of pollution too…. but who can eat that cr@# !
WORD OF THE DAY
MOONBAT, n.
A special class of the more familiar braying jackass, these reality insulated cretins are usually seen at night baying at the moon, but they’re equally fond of spewing their demented gibberish in front of a live camera…
Up next…..’Home vegetable gardens are using up the world’s valuable water resources.’ DHS drone opens fire on Mrs. Smith’s right-wing extremist tomatoe plants.
….as opposed to how much particulate matter
Moon-force One puts in the atmosphere going back and forth to campaign stops and vacations and date night ?!
Those “grease, smoke, water vapors and combustion products, which emit a large amount of particulate matter into the air” smell pretty good when you pass a place on the street or boardwalk cooking them.
If these a-holes could only see my Traeger belching smoke it would be all over. They would have a massive collective coronary.
Only a dumb-fuck libtard would swallow that. Keep the burgers–lose the heifer.
I call utter BS on that.
Just for the record, how much pollution does broiling a moonbat cause?
Correction:
WORD OF THE DAY
MOONBAT, n.
see: anothercommie’s posts
And from where did they take their measurements?
Anyone who has worked as a grunt in the food industry, knows that grease filters, which are required to be used in the ventilation hoods, which are required to be used in commercial kitchens, are required to meet NFPA codes, extracting 80% – 100% of grease from the exhaust. These morons should be required to clean some of those filters before they publish the results of their “studies”.
Yes, I know some restaurants don’t clean their grease filters, but that’s an issue of compliance with existing regulations, not an inherent problem with cooking some burgers.
According to Maria Segura, “Either way, we’re living in a world (where) we’re still going through pollution. But the difference is we are getting some type of benefit from (the burger).”
No benefit from 18-wheelers…? And there you have it, folks: Maria has decried no benefit whatsoever from 18-wheelers.
Progs are a plague on humanity.
Maria Segura,”..we are getting some type of benefit from the burger.” Uhm…yep…’some type’ of life-sustaining 100% necessary requirement. That’s like saying a fish is getting ‘some type’ of benefit from water.
I am reminded of my father’s definition of “expert”
We all know that “X” stands for the “unknown” in an algebraic equation and a “spurt” is a drip under pressure; ergo, an “expert” is an unknown drip under pressure.
I posted this story days ago… good to see it finally got a thread. But, as we all know, there were a lot of important things to say lately so it’s understandable that it took so long.
My point was and is this is not really about air quality, as Mr. Blount mentions. This is part of larger struggles:
Against “evil” corporations that import beef from south America, beef produced on slash-and-burn tracts of former rainforest. Corporations that don’t pay fair wages nor provide proper health coverage and other perks.
Against meat itself, which as everyone knows, is full of hormones and, even without them, causes white men to turn into evil, vile monsters who do terrible, unspeakable things to women.
That, and so much more. I could go on, but I think you already know.
Yes, this pretty much wraps up all the nonsense moonbats believe into one nice package.
Oh, gee, another moonbat study who’s conclusion was written before the study was even done.
Henry
She must not have known about the “wonderful” regulations imposed on new 18 wheelers
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/strange_friends_of_the_new_epa_trucking_regulations.html
More than an 18 wheeler driving 143 miles? That number smells like some “expert” just pulled it out of his asshole.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
FIRST, cow farts cause “global warming”. So we start eating all the cows we can to get rid of them.
NOW, cooking hamburgers causes polution.
We can’t win!
I never thought I’d say this: but for once, you have a very good point, anothercommie.
Just imagine how much “pollutants” my smoker puts out during a 15 hour smoke of a nice 8 – 12lb beef brisket.
I usually smoke about one a month plus some pork shoulders but after reading this and realizing how much angst it causes the leftist Nazis, I’m going to smoke TWO a month.
“762×51 says:September 21, 2012 at 11:30 am”
+100!!!!
I would like to do my part. Now, when I cook out I usually pour water on the charcoal. I worry about starting another fire in my yard it pisses off me neighbors.
Instead, should I just let the charcoal burn itself out? Anyone have an opinion? I want to put out more smoke and pollution so my charbroiled burger isn’t in vain.
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Hey leftist Moontards: moslems burning flags and embassies causes POLLUTION. Please go to the Middle East and do a “study” of this serious problem.
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Besides the cost – and more importantly, the insult – to taxpayers of producing an APOLOGY video to run on PORKistan TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtNu6E7c4vA
the carbon emissions in the making of this dhimmi “machwerk” were infinitely higher than those produced by a hamburger patty.
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Time now to put a few shrimp on the barbie..
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Will someone do a study of the environmental impact of islamic terrorism?
9/11 alone caused countless cases of cancers and other maladies.
What a lovely planet this would be if islam didn’t exist..
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A UC Riverside study found that commercially cooked hamburgers cause more air pollution than diesel trucks.
I for one will sleep easier knowing our institutions are tackling the great and compelling questions of our time…with our tax dollars of course.
If we’re measuring the ecological carnage caused by our diet, somebody should take a good hard look at Taco Bell.
I envision a new bumper sticker
“My burger spewed more climate change than your big rig!”
That’ll look great on a Prius.