Hi Everyone,

You know, I never really thought about how our diet contributes to global warming.  Yes, the two are somewhat connected.  While we are all partially to blame for our planet warming up through the use of vehicles and energy consumption — the food we eat also increases our carbon footprint.

I just recently read an article about a book that is soon to be published called “Global Warming Diet” advocates such things as eating more local products, more organic products, adding more seasonal foods, using less packaging, buying in bulk and even growing your own food.

But if you think about what you’re eating TODAY you’ll see how you are contributing to the problem.

Consider a package of potatoe chips.  To grow the source product (potatoes) takes up land, you need to irrigate, farms may be using pesticides and/or fertilizers to grow the potatoes, they need to use machinery to remove them from the ground and more machinery to process them.  Then more machinery to slice them up, and fry them.  You need more factories to create the plastic packaging, plus the graphics used on the packaging uses inks and dyes, then the packaging is shipped to the factory making the end product - more machinery is used to fill, seal and package the end product.  It’s then shipped out — probably by rail or truck then re-shipped by truck to the retail outlet and then finally the consumer drives to purchase the product, uses it and discards the packaing; which is then taken by garbage truck and probably ends up in a landfill somewhere.

Whew.

We didn’t even go into what it takes to create the oil that is used to fry the potatoes!

While I truly realize that this is a stretch, it does give you something else to think about when you think about buying junk food versus something that is good for you.

Here is to Your Health!

Regards,

Mohammed

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