Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:53:53 PM
Robert and Brenda Vale said in their new book, “Time To Eat The Dog: The Real Guide To Sustainable Living,” that a medium-sized dog eats about 362 pounds of meat and 209 pounds of cereal each year, with 43 square miles of land needed to create just 2.2 pounds of dog food cereal, Sky News reported Friday.
The Vales calculate the carbon footprint of a medium-sized dog as 2.08 acres, more than twice the 1.01 acres needed to create enough energy to build a Toyota Land Cruiser. However, the pair said the average driver travels about 12,000 miles a year, making the carbon footprint of the Toyota and the dog roughly equivalent.
So what does this tell us? That we need to get rid of our pets, or our park our SUV's?
Here is what it tells me; our SUV's are just not that bad.