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Blog Post 4-Mia Szohr

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After doing more research into the negative environmental impacts that the production of fresh vegetable produce have, I would say they are not only significant and considerable but also come with a feasible solution that may reduce these negative impacts. When thinking on a more global or national scale, a possible large-scale solution could be a change in marketing. When looking at any marketing on produce, whether it is a commercial, ad, etc. there always seems to be a subliminal, if not direct, message that these products are not only health beneficial but also environmentally beneficial. In doing so, this pushes consumers to not only not consider the environmental impacts of buying produce from non-local sources, but actually pushes them to believe they are being environmentally friendly with their meal choice. By creating ads that promote more locally sourced produce as well as putting these environmental impacts from things such as transportation of the produce, chemical use and
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Blog Post 3: The Environmental Impact of My Meal

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  Blog Post 3:  The Environmental Impact of My Meal         I try to eat a salad every day, so I decided to choose a basic, meatless salad for my meal to use for this project. I try to stay away from most meats and dairy, especially red meat, due to health concerns and environmental impacts, so after doing more research on environmental impacts from fresh produce I was shocked to have found what I did! The most shocking infromation to me was that vegetarians actually cause more greenhouse gas emmisons than meat eaters. When I started digging more into this topic, I decided to use lettuce, tomato and other vegetables for the main ingredients of my consumer item. While locally grown produce does reduce carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels and reduces fossil fuel imputs by using less plastic packaging to get it from the garden to the stores shelves themself, this isn't always the case for Wisconsin veggie eaters due to our season changes. According to an article by Scientific Am
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 A single plastic bag takes 400-1,000 years to disintegrate. That fact alone will make me more conscious of my decision to use a plastic bag next time I am at the grocery store, but, not all unifromed people may feel this way. For many years I have heard about the affects plastic has on the environment from the over 70% of sea turtles found with plastics related deaths since the year 2020 to the millions of people affected by their cities being covered in plastic. After watching the documentary "Battle of the Bags", I became much more aware of the affects plastic really has on marine life. Ignoring the consequences of plastics littered has created a major issue not only for the United States but across the world. But, one promising attempt made by a coastal Indian city to ban all thin single use plastics gives me hope. In Mumbai, they have made an effort to eliminate all thin single use plastics by banning them in the city and prosecuting with high fines. I think this along w
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