You sit down to a lovely dinner featuring Fareway protein (chicken from North Carolina or beef from Texas), Idaho potatoes, green grapes (from Chile), green beans frozen from the last farmer's market, and bread and butter from Kwik Star (shipped in from Wisconsin). What is the carbon footprint of this meal?
Well, first we need to figure out what a carbon footprint is. Wikipedia can help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint
You have 10 minutes to develop your logic.
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- Questions for Reflection
- Do you really think it matters that America eats food with a large carbon footprint? Remember, the KCRG guys said yesterday that we all change the environment, but that a large group of people change it more than a small group of people.
- Would you be willing to can or freeze your food?
- Would you be willing to avoid buying fresh fruit that traveled outside the bounds of the US?
- Grocery prices are most affected by what factors: wages, packaging,or shipping costs?
- Farmers markets have become popular with a slogan of "buy fresh, buy local". Do you shop at these? Why or why not?
- Sometimes we can decrease our meal cost by substituting ONE item. Which would you pick in this meal?
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