In March, Fox News reported that burping earthworms were hideous offenders in the battle to save earth (they emit nitrous oxide – laughing gas- which is 300x more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas). 

Today, the Times (of London) reports that the government is developing food menus that reduce the content of ‘high carbon’ animals.  The biggest offender per pound:  lamb!  Close behind lamb are tomatoes and alcohol – VERY bad for the environment!  To which I say:

But wait, there’s more:

The Carbon Trust, a government-funded firm, is working with food and drink companies to calculate the “carbon footprints” of products – sometimes with surprising results.

Coca-Cola, for example, generates only about half the greenhouse gas emissions of Innocent’s “smoothies”. Cadbury’s chocolate generates about 4½lb for every 2.2lb eaten – less than half that from theof CO2 same weight of chicken.

Check out the Carbon Trust’s  new labeling available to show your (British) consumers the carbon footprint of your services (the surprise is that an on-line bank account has a carbon footprint of 200 grams of CO2 per account, which is mor than for a serving of organic potatoes! Oh, the HORROR!).