Study: Air Pollution From Grilled Burgers Worse Than Trucks
September 18, 2012 10:26 Pm

HESPERIA (CBSLA.com) — A UC Riverside study found that commercially cooked hamburgers cause more air pollution than diesel trucks.

The study, which focused on commercial charbroilers found in burger restaurants, said the equipment generates grease, smoke, water vapors and combustion products, which emit a large amount of particulate matter into the air.

“For comparison, an 18-wheeler diesel engine truck would have to drive 143 miles on the freeway to put out the same mass of particulates as a single charbroiled hamburger patty,” said Bill Welch, the principle engineer.

Researchers also found few regulations for the restaurant emissions.

Customers at a Hesperia burger joint said you can’t compare diesel emissions with hamburger smoke.

“Either way, we’re living in a world (where) we’re still going through pollution. But the difference is we are getting some type of benefit from (the burger),” said Maria Segura.

The UCR study is co-funded by the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.

“Either way, we’re living in a world (where) we’re still going through pollution. But the difference is we are getting some type of benefit from (the burger),” said Maria Segura.

What a stupid quote, the 18 wheeler is moving goods and services, while the Burger is giving Diabetes and Heart disease, what great benefits.

Our society allows a Class A carcinogen (cigarettes) in mixed casual company... I'm not going to worry
about a burnt burger.

Tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. Because cigarette smoking
and tobacco use are acquired behaviors, smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society.
Smoking accounts for 80% of lung cancer deaths. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in
both men and women, and is one of the hardest cancers to treat.

Cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths. It is linked with an increased risk
of these cancers:
Larynx (voice box)
Oral cavity (mouth, tongue, and lips)
Pharynx (throat)
Esophagus (tube connecting the throat to the stomach)
Stomach
Pancreas
Cervix
Kidney
Bladder
Ovary (a type called mucinous ovarian cancer)
Colorectum (the colon and/or the rectum)
Acute myeloid leukemia

Each year about 443,000 people in the United States die from illnesses related to tobacco use.

(American Cancer Society)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/hea.....10-early-deaths.html

Well smoking may cause 1 in 5 in your study, but in this study red meat is causing 1 in 10 early deaths. When are we gonna tax red meat up to $40 a pound. LOL, anyways I'm just kidding with the tax comment, I'm glad cigarettes are legal and red meat. It's the land of the free and we are all gonna die anyways, we should at least be able to pick our poison. Too bad our government feels it can pick on smokers like they are second class citizens, all under the BS guise that they are helping them.

Quoted from A Better Rotterdam

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/hea.....10-early-deaths.html

Well smoking may cause 1 in 5 in your study, but in this study red meat is causing 1 in 10 early deaths. When are we gonna tax red meat up to $40 a pound. LOL, anyways I'm just kidding with the tax comment, I'm glad cigarettes are legal and red meat. It's the land of the free and we are all gonna die anyways, we should at least be able to pick our poison. Too bad our government feels it can pick on smokers like they are second class citizens, all under the BS guise that they are helping them.

I wonder if Americans would accept someone spewing asbestos, radon or uranium in their neighborhood?
After all... ya gotta die of something!

Quoted from Box A Rox

I wonder if Americans would accept someone spewing asbestos, radon or uranium in their neighborhood?
After all... ya gotta die of something!

Box, the whole question is where do you draw the line? I think Red meat and cigarettes are awfully close, your comparison of cigarettes and uranium not so much?

Radon, uranium and asbestos, like cigarettes are all Class A carcinogens

Burger pollution is advertisement.

Quoted from A Better Rotterdam

“Either way, we’re living in a world (where) we’re still going through pollution. But the difference is we are getting some type of benefit from (the burger),” said Maria Segura.

What a stupid quote, the 18 wheeler is moving goods and services, while the Burger is giving Diabetes and Heart disease, what great benefits.

a burger isn't giving anything.....

people are choosing.....

Quoted from Box A Rox

Our society allows a Class A carcinogen (cigarettes) in mixed casual company... I'm not going to worry
about a burnt burger.

Tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. Because cigarette smoking
and tobacco use are acquired behaviors, smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society.
Smoking accounts for 80% of lung cancer deaths. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in
both men and women, and is one of the hardest cancers to treat.

Cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths. It is linked with an increased risk
of these cancers:
Larynx (voice box)
Oral cavity (mouth, tongue, and lips)
Pharynx (throat)
Esophagus (tube connecting the throat to the stomach)
Stomach
Pancreas
Cervix
Kidney
Bladder
Ovary (a type called mucinous ovarian cancer)
Colorectum (the colon and/or the rectum)
Acute myeloid leukemia

Each year about 443,000 people in the United States die from illnesses related to tobacco use.

(American Cancer Society)

EVERYTHING IS AN ACQUIRED BEHAVIOR.....it's called CHOICE.....maybe the DNA manipulators can breed it out of us