Food Reflection

Day 1: cereal, orange juice, chocolate milk, ice tea, microwavable Philly sandwich, Granola bar, pudding,orange juice,water(bottle), banana, stir fry, yogurt, chocolate bar, milk.
Day 2:Cereal, orange juice, Tim Horton's coffee and breakfast sandwich, Mc. Donald's big mac and fries, beer.

Looking back at what i ate on those two days i can see that there are environmental concerns. first milk has a pretty big carbon footprint. The feed for the cow, the milking equipment, travel, processing, packaging and refrigeration all involve carbon emissions(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122304950601802565.html ). I could also cut back on the amount of meat i eat because like the milk raising the livestock has a huge carbon footprint. Clearing for pastureland is also an impact. i also eat to many microwavable foods that come in individual packaging. The amount of packaging in relation to the actual food is ridiculous though i try to recycle all i can the stuff i cant will end up in the dump. that is a problem with a lot of the food i eat, there is too much packaging. The fruit i eat such as bananas have to travel vast distances to reach my house. With beer apparently the biggest source of carbon emissions is refrigeration. Drinking bottled water is also a big source of carbon emission as we discussed in class the plastic and transportation adds a lot of carbon emissions to a drink of water when i could have just used a tap or drinking fountain.