It’s not really surprising that a “journalist” from the UK Guardian is a wackadoodle eco-nutjob
‘Eco-conscious’ families should eat their Christmas trees, urges reporter
Instead of throwing out your Christmas tree, a journalist writing for The Guardian urged families to consider eating it.
“Instead of sending their pine, fir and spruce trees for recycling or replanting, growing numbers of eco-conscious households are trying to make the most of them by eating various parts before throwing them out,” Miranda Bryant wrote. “Fir trees can be used in ice-cream, to pickle vegetables and even to flavour gin.”
Food experts said a Christmas tree can be used to cook, using the needles like rosemary or basil leaves as a kick of citrus or pine flavor and a source of vitamin C, she wrote. By burning the wood, eco-family households can also make pine ash for use in the garden or kitchen cleaning.
According to the National Christmas Tree Association, 25-30 million real Christmas trees are sold in the United States every year.
“You can pretty much eat the whole thing,” Julia Georgallis, author of How to Eat Your Christmas Tree told The Guardian. “You can use the needles as you would use rosemary or bay leaves, for flavour.”
A five-foot Christmas tree is probably about 12 years old, she said. “I don’t know why in a climate crisis, when trees are our best armoury, we’re cutting down thousands a year to keep hostage in our houses.”
Sigh. And the forests are replanted, allowed to grow.
People can get live Christmas trees suitable for replanting in their yards. That, of course, requires them to have yards in which they could be replanted!
Remember: Euell Gibbons told us that we really could eat a pine tree!
Riddle me this eco-nuts in the fact trees are CO2 emitters, Arendt they bad? Net zero right?
Hi Frank,
You may have it confused.
Just about all living organisms use carbohydrates for energy, emitting CO2 as a waste product. This process (respiration) consumes oxygen (O2) and yields CO2 and energy. Plants (especially green plants) build complex carbohydrates from CO2, deriving the energy for this from sunlight and the process (photosynthesis) yields oxygen (O2).
6CO2 + 6H2O ? C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O
For every 6 molecules of carbon dioxide (CO2) a plant produces 1 molecule of simple carbohydrate (C6H12O6) and 6 molecules of molecular oxygen (O2).
Plants liberate more oxygen from photosynthesis than they generate CO2 from cellular respiration. In terms of CO2, plants sop up more CO2 than they produce.
We owe all of animal evolution to the appearance of oxygen in the atmosphere some 2.5 billion years ago! It’s thought that the expansion of photosynthetic cyanobacteria led to the accumulation of atmospheric O2.
Frank
Have you heard about that new science discovery?
Photosynthesis
Look it up.
John,
Really smart ass answer. Maybe you should try to understand the science. Frank is correct.
Humans do not eat wood or tree leaves, since we don’t digest the fibrous materials, largely cellulose. We gain little nutrition from leaves.
Eating pine needles will not slow global warming.
Eco-conscious people should eat their private jets..