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From A Hamburger Today

Bummed About Burgers

Well I love a good burger as well and wouldn't think about not eating one. But here's a suggestion to "balance" out your desire for a burger and the ecological cost behind making one. For every burger you eat, try and recycle more, stop drinking bottled water (think of the landfil pollution), try and walk or ride your bike to save on the pollution from your car or mass transit bus or train. Start using a "green" grocery bag, instead of plastic or paper (now imagine if we all did this simple thing). Shop at a farmers market for your produce, instead of having them shipped across the country or half way around the world. And buy organic, where there is no run off into our rivers and streams from the pesticides and herbicides. I think if you (we) all do a few of these things we can all enjoy our guilt free burger.

bgardner at 2:38PM on 02/02/08

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From A Hamburger Today

Bummed About Burgers

If you want to maintain that ability to function with a first rate intelligence, then I suggest you keep your meaty eats around. The seeming lack of intelligence often observed in our meat-rejecting friends is not all from the "herbal supplements" that often make up part of their diet. Unfortunately for those who feel a meat-free life is more enlightened existence, their diet lacks vital amino acids and complex proteins vital to the proper production of brain cells and neurotransmitters. I try to follow the lead of my omnivorous friend Ecopimp, who lives closer to the earth than any of us city people would be comfortable with, who knows the patterns of life and death and humanity's place within that chain (yes we are animals, and thus part of the food chain too, entitled to our needs but not to gluttony or waste). We should work to improve the footprint of all we eat, connect with the growers and farmers who make up our local food chain, and to mitigate the damage of our demands with efforts for the greater good. And why not have the full brain functions of a properly nourished body to help propel these efforts at improving the world. That seems like the only humane and responsible approach for all its citizens.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Nutrition-Dieting-939/Vit-B-complex-proteins.htm

granolaheadesq at 12:12PM on 02/03/08

From A Hamburger Today

Bummed About Burgers

I'm with Texas Blues. I grew up on a farm, too. We raised 75% of the food we ate whether animal or vegetable. My uncle raised wheat and cotton. The wheat sometimes harbored meadow larks and their ground nests. When he harvested the wheat, meadow larks and their nests were often destroyed. It was not intentional, and we all tried not to harm wild animals, but it happened.

leomoore at 8:45PM on 02/02/08

From A Hamburger Today

Bummed About Burgers

There, in my opinion are only two places to get a good
Burger. Whataburger in Texas and Blake's Lotaburger in New Mexico. These are the Best. There is one burger place in Ft.Worth Texas that is not a chain but should be world famous, it is Kincaid's Grocery. Do not even tell me about a Cheeseburger until you have reviewed one there.

usa67us at 8:45PM on 02/02/08

From A Hamburger Today

Bummed About Burgers

Born and raised in Indianapolis, my loyalty is still to Steak and Shake. However, as strange as it may sound there is a Wendy's here in Colorado Springs that does something different in their cooking that makes me set my errands where I end up there for lunch.

ladyz at 7:59PM on 02/02/08