For Once, it Wasn’t Me
AP - Researchers: Baking impacts Puget Sound
Researchers at the University of Washington say all that holiday baking and eating has an environmental impact — Puget Sound is being flavored by cinnamon and vanilla. “Even something as fun as baking for the holiday season has an environmental effect,” said Rick Keil, an associate professor of chemical oceanography. “When we bake and change the way we eat, it has an impact on what the environment sees. To me it shows the connectedness.”
As environmental catastrophes go, I think this one I can live with (who knows, maybe the geoducks will taste better (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, seriously, click on that link)).
Curtsies to Brett McS for sending this to me this morning. As I explained to him, there was very little baking going on here, and not an ounce of cinnamon was used. Or vanilla.
December 30th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
I was so prepared to like the geoduck, but…
The geoduck is the official mascot of The Evergreen State College, located at the southernmost tip of Puget Sound in Olympia, Washington. The school’s Latin motto, Omnia Extares (or, “let it all hang out”) is at least partially intended as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the creature’s phallic appearance.
Just another Apalachicola oyster wanna be.
December 30th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
I was hoping someone would read that far down.
December 30th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Oh, brother. Remember the rumor going around amongst the anti-vaccine crowd that the rise in infertility rates is related to hormones in our water thanks to urine from women on the pill? This is going to start that right up again.
December 30th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
No no, the ever-earlier onset of puberty in young girls was because of the hormones in the BEEF, which was then somehow filtered into the water table through the water cycle, I seem to remember.
See, this’ll just get the “people are getting fatter because of the baked goodness in our water sypply” treatment.