RE: Barbecue fumes adding to haze over Houston

[Tim5055]

 
OK here ia an article from Reuters
 
 I wonder if they are describing Texas campers??[]
 
 

Barbecue fumes adding to haze over Houston
 
 Texans like to say that they live and breathe barbecue -- which may be one of the reasons why the air is so bad in Houston, the state s so-called barbecue capital.
 
 According to a study from scientists at Rice University in the city, microscopic bits of polyunsaturated fatty acids released into the atmosphere from cooking meat on backyard barbecues are helping to foul the air in Houston.
 
 The city at times registers levels that rank it as one of the more polluted U.S. urban areas in terms of air quality.
 
 Matthew Fraser, an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at Rice who led the study, said he was measuring eight different sources of organic particulate matter in the atmosphere, coming from items such as burning gasoline.
 
 ``Meat turned out to be a somewhat important source of the atmospheric fine particles in the urban area in Houston,   Fraser said.
 
 Fraser said the percentage of particles in the atmosphere from cooking meat as a part of the overall level of airborne pollutants was in the single digits.
 
 He added fine particles, such as those that come from cooking meat, are a health concern because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and lead to respiratory and heart problems.
 
 The report is expected to be published next month in an academic periodical. The team at Rice conducted its survey of Houston air over a one-year period between 1997 and 1998.
 
 ``I think that a lot of American cities would have the same problem,   Fraser said.
 
 ``Houston does have a reputation for being the barbecue capital of Texas. It is certainly possible that the problem of fine particles from cooking meat is more important here than other cities,   he said.

[AustinBoston]

 tim5055
Of course, some people will not be satisfied until we all stop eating. [:@]
 
 Some things are not worth the bother of complaining about.[]
 
 Austin

[ThunderRock]

 tim5055
OTOH, looks like Houston is not the place for vegetarians!! []
 
 BTW, if vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat??? [][]

[garym053]

 tim5055
There was an article a few years back about the dough smell coming from bakeries being bad for people! Hmm, my grandmother baked all her own bread and pastries. She smelled those smells every day and only lived to be 90 something! Imagine how long she would have lived if she hadn t smelled dough all her life!!!

[rednekrubbrduck]

 tim5055
The smell coming from a bakery was bad for you cause it made you run in and load up on all those pastries...and if the person who budged in front of you got that last blueberry donut, then yes...it can be deadly.  My grandfather smoked cigs for like 30 plus years, ate redmeat every day.  drank beer every day, was a fireman (hence the beer) back before they had all these fancy breathing apparatusses, and was the fire chief of my hometown for a spell, and out lived 2 wives and was lookinf gor a third.  He passed away at the rip young age of like 95 or 96.  His health didn t start to fail till the doc told him no more beer and meat (he had quite smoking years before) when he was like 92 or 93.  Also...Houston may be the BBQ capital of Texas..but Kansas City is the BBQ capital of the world (you can pry my grill from my cold dead hands  [] ).

[garym053]

 tim5055
I LOVE BBQ! Send me some!!! It s not very plentiful around Vermont!!! If you have any really good recipes my email address ISN T hidden, hint hint!

[Miss-Teri]

 rednekrubbrduck

 

ORIGINAL:  rednekrubbrduck
 (you can pry my grill from my cold dead hands  [] ).
 

 LOL!  Ditto that!!!
 

[Trlrboy]

 tim5055
Kansas City BBQ?  C mon Duck, surely you are kidding.  The best  Q comes from Texas, wings from Buffalo, wine from Napa and rock n roll from Bruce and the boys in Jersey.

[rednekrubbrduck]

 tim5055
Texas BBQ the best?  hhhrrruuummmmppphh  Of course Kansas City has the best BBQ...why we even hold the National BBQ Rodeo here cause we make ours so good...we get to judge everyone else.  []  We even have our own cut of steak, the Kansas City Strip (which New Yorkers got jealous of and changed the name to NY Strip...but we stand fast by the original name).  []