Couch Potatoes are Environmentally Friendly

[drplokta]

Apparently, if you are concerned about global warming, you should drive instead of walking wherever possible. Your fuel (food) produces more greenhouse gases in its production and use than your car's fuel (especially if you eat a lot of beef and dairy produce).

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[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

It rather depends on what you eat to replace your calories. The figures were calculated on the basis that the walking calories were recouped by eating 100g of beef. If instead you ate an apple grown on one of your own garden's trees then you'd be saving carbon production at every step.

This result is not an endorsement of using the car, it's a condemnation of energy intensive agriculture, especially in meat production.