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What The Deal With Your Meal Part III

  Are You The Problem or The Solution?  My Meal Is The Problem  My last post talked about how the corn and the chicken from my meal impacted the environment. We learned that industrialized corn farms use lots of water. This causes groundwater to be drained from the middle of the U.S. There is also an excessive use of fertilizers that runoff into rivers and canals that then drain into lakes and oceans. These runoffs cause dead zones that are harmful to marine life and the aquatic ecosystems. In addition, corn impacts the soil conditions. Due to the fact the commercialized crops use the same soil over and over it causes lots of erosion and damages the nut rients within the soil. This contributes to long-term damage to soil structure, which may make it hard to grow food in the future.  As for the chicken in my meal we learned that c hicken, no matter where they are raised are usually in inhumane conditions in giant warehouses. Chickens tend to cause water poll...
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Whats The Deal With Your Meal? Part II

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  How Many Wheels Does It Take To Get Your Meal?  Recap From My Last Post I hope that my last post got you thinking about your own meals and what all goes into getting them on your plate. I discussed my own meal which was loaded nachos and all the hidden ingredients. All these ingredients also have hidden impacts on our world. There is farming, cultivation, processing, transportation and so much more that affect our environment daily. For this blog I will be diving deeper into all the fine details of my meal and where it came from and the specific impacts my meal caused.  My Meal Just to refresh from last time this was my meal and the list of all its ingredients. I'll list each item of the dish individually, so that I can take into account every single environmental transaction made just by eating this. The list of ingredients was incredibly long for a dish that "only" has 6 ingredients. In reality there are actually had 24 ingredients! I cannot focus on all of...
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What's The Deal With Your Meal? Part I

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How Much Does Your Meal Cost The Environment?    Conscious Consuming           Have you ever thought about what it takes to make the pizza you just ordered, or how far the apple you’re eating has traveled? We often take for granted how readily available our food is to us, and don't stop to think about where our food comes from or what impacts our food can have on the environment. I bet if you stopped and listed out every simple component of one meal you had today, spices and all, you'd be surprised how many different places those components came from.    My Meal           Let's take a deep dive into what I had for dinner last night, loaded nachos! I'll list each item of the dish individually, so that we take into account every single environmental transaction we made just by eating this.  Loaded Nacho Ingredients Tortilla Chips Masa Corn Water Salt Pepper Vegtable Oil ...
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"Battle of the Bag"

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Why Should You Care About Plastic Bags?     Plastic Bags and Their Impact         Every item we use in our day-to-day lives impacts the environment one way or another. One item that has been making headlines for many years is the plastic bag. The plastic bag was invited in the 1950's by Mobil Oil and ever since then it has been a staple in the shopping culture. These bags are made of oil that is processed into polyethylene. This makes plastic bags impossible to decompose, taking anywhere from 400-1,000 years. Due to the fact that they take so long to disintegrate plastic bags end up all over in all different sorts of ecosystems causing massive repercussions. Some of the effects are, animals eating plastics and dying in places like Delhi India where cows roam free, the cows wonder into dumps and eat the food covered plastics. In turn this back up their intestines killing them. Other effects include the releasing of micro-plastics into bodies o...
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