Did you know that a 500-megawatt coal power plant produces about 4 million tons of CO2 emissions a year?  Considering all the power plants that are in the world, that’s about 31 billion tons of CO2 combined!  What’s bad is that the U.S. accounts for about 7 billion of these greenhouse gases.

Every day people go to fast food restaurants to grab their favorite burger, they might plan a get-together at Outback Steakhouse or they’ll sit down with their family to enjoy a nice pot roast. Little do they know about the role that these sources of beef play in the process of global warming.

In a recent study lead by Japanese researcher Akifumi Ogino of the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, he studied just how much energy was used in the process of producing beef…