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PB & J Saves the World

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Cookiecutter_small The PB & J campaign argues that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch once a week instead of a burger or chicken nuggets could help save the planet. The campaign organizer is a vegetarian for environmental reasons, but he hates the radical approach that's often taken by pro-vegan, pro-vegetarian groups. He wants to use the humble PB & J as an all-American approach to being more environmentally friendly.

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The PB & J campaign argues that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch once a week instead of a burger or chicken nuggets could help save the planet. The campaign organizer is a vegetarian for environmental reasons, but he hates the radical approach that's often taken by pro-vegan, pro-vegetarian groups. He wants to use the humble PB & J as an all-American approach to being more environmentally friendly.

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What could be more American, more humble, than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? And yet one activist suggests a PB and J a day could help slow global warming. Jennifer Szweda Jordan recently visited the founder of the PB and J Campaign:

(Brown:) "So we just spread some peanut butter on your banana bread. Would you like to try it?"

(Jordan:) "Yeah. Yeah."

Bernard Brown is trying to get people to see the peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a new light. On his website, there's a saintly glow behind a graphic of the sandwich. He thinks eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could just save the planet.

Brown estimates that eating one peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch versus, say, a ham sandwich, or a burger, saves nearly three and a half pounds of greenhouse gas emissions and 280 gallons of water. In Brown's kitchen, he waves a peanut butter covered knife. He explai...
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Host intro: What could be more American, more humble, than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? And yet one activist suggests a PB and J a day could help slow global warming. Jennifer Szweda Jordan recently visited the founder of the PB and J Campaign.

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