Oh my god. Who would have thought something as benign as a humble biscuit would be making a covert contribution to global warming?

I experience a bit of a sugar craving at about 10:30, and I love to have a bickie or two (or the entire packet) with my morning cup of tea. This morning I popped into the local supermarket and bought a packet of appealing cookies, four in total, each one a sandwich of two biscuits glued together with red jam, iced with real chocolate.

I returned to work, and ravenously devoured the first one. Half-way through the second one, I decided to examine the ingredient list.

The second ingredient in the list - Animal fat (BEEF).

Yuuuk! I had to spit out my mouthful. I've been making a concerted effort to cut down my contribution to atmospheric methane concentrations by not eating beef, but here I was unconsciously chomping down cow.

Maybe I'm getting all het up for no good reason. I use butter in my own cooking and I would have been quite happy to eat biscuits made with butter, but I imagine that the cows that produce the butter fart just as much as those which are eventually slaughtered for meat. Perhaps my prejudice is justified, however, on the basis of fat to fart ratio. I imagine you'd get a lot more butter from a cow over its farting life than you would beef fat ... but don't quote me on that, I don't have the appropriate stats on hand.

Anyways EarthMums, just check your ingredients and be aware that there may be hidden beef consumption in your diet.