Blog Post 3: The Environmental Impact of My Meal
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. Accor...