Food- what you eat

Changing our food and eating habits is most effective thing most of us can do to shrink our foot print.

• Level I- add organics to your diet
• Level II- become a vegetarian or vegan
• Level III- become a locavore

Examples

• Second only to owning a car, eating commercially produced meat is one of the largest portions of our carbon footprint.
• Calories of fossil fuel needed to produce 1 calorie of protein in beef: 28.Calories of fossil fuel needed to produce 1 calorie of protein in soybeans: 2 http://www.zenzibar.com/Articles/15_reasons.asp
• Local food, in general, is much more sustainable because it is fresh, has not been transported over great distances, and is produced by small scale operations

Additional Information

• Here is an article about why to be a vegetarian http://www.animalliberation.org.au/vegconf.php
• Here is another article about the impact of meat. http://www.earthoria.com/global-hunger-the-more-meat-we-eat-the-fewer-pe...
• These articles are about how to read organic labels
• http://www.theorganicreport.com/pages/12_how_to_read_the_usda_organic_la...
• http://www.organic.org/articles/showarticle/article-201
• This site is about how and why to eat locally http://100milediet.org/