If you’re near a window, stop what you’re doing and look outside. Trees, grass, the ozone layer; it’s all under threat from us humans. But did you know that margarine has significantly lower environmental impact. Margarine can be a healthy for your body as it contains more polyunsaturated and monounsaturated, or good fats.
Green bible Conservationmagazine.org – forward-thinking journalism from those spods at the University of Washington – adds a new spin to the margarine. Placing margarine in an environmental frame. But how? Using a Life Cycle Assessment which takes a looking glass to margarine and sees how well they get on with the oceans, the rivers and lakes, the land and the atmosphere. Because we don’t want to overload you with science, the main thing you need to glean from the article is this. What makes the results of this comparative LCA? The carbon footprint of the margarine is small.
OK, so the phrase ‘carbon footprint’ is forever being bandied about but what does it actually mean? Essentially it means that the bigger the footprint, the more you greenhouse gases you will be releasing which in turn means the more you’re warming up the planet. And that’s obviously not a good thing. Margarine’s carbon footprint is way smaller than that of butter which means that the recipe for crafting margarine is more environmentally favorable. It’s as plain as the nose on your face – choose margarine to go green!
