Final Food Blog Post

After looking over my last blog post i have to say that my meal was definitely a problem in terms of having negative impacts on the environment. Nearly every part of the meal had either direct or indirect effects on the environment and they were overwhelmingly negative. Its safe to say that actions need to be taken to reduce the effects of food production, globally, locally and individually.
          To affect something on a global scale is very difficult as it requires the co-operation of billions of people. However, it can be achieved through the correct planning and organizing. One of the environmental effects from my meal was that i used plastic bags to carry the ingredients home, we know the devastating effects that they can have on the environment so i stick by what i said in my post concerning plastic bags, they need to be discontinued and banned globally. If this can be done and a proper replacement was put in place then the benefit to the environment would be fantastic. A limitation is what i said at the start, to affect something globally it required billions of people working together and agreeing which is very hard.
          Local change is done much easier but still requires hard work. Within a city or a state a change can be made through the local government and we see that with many cities banning the plastic bag e.g San Diego. I think a good way we can improve the negative effects from the transportation of food is by using locally grown produce where ever possible. This would reduce the carbon footprint of the food industry massively because less petroleum would be used in the lorries that distribute the produce. A limitation to this solution is that some foods need certain climates in order to grow so some things have to be transported a long way. A way around this is maybe to simulate the environment that the crops are grown in but this is hard to do on a large scale.
            Making a change comes down to individuals and whether they are willing to make sacrifices. A micro-scale change is the easiest one and the most important because it kick starts a change locally and globally. There are so many little things we can do to help our environment, from re using a plastic bag instead of getting a new one at the store to recycling your rubbish after your meal. A change i could have made from my meal was that i drove to the shop when i could have realistically walked there . By walking instead of driving i would have prevented the release of carbon emissions into the environment hence reducing the negative effects of the food industry.
           Overall i think its clear to see we need to start doing more to save our planet and making sacrifices is the only way we can accomplish this, its just a case of whether we are motivated enough to do it.