A.
1. This week’s session on sustainability hit very close to home with me. My adult children have been altering their consumption habits by buying organic, antibiotic free, and non-gmo products over the last few months. They have also been purchasing either free range or locally grown meats, local meat markets. After reading “A Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change”, I also altered my buying habits for the week.
I knew, from my daughters, that there were health benefits to eating organic and local grown products, but I didn’t realized that there were also environmental consequences. Unfortunately, since the publishing of this text, opinions of the differences between grain and grass fed beef have changed. Research I conducted on the …show more content…
#5. One way to change my diet would be to change my meat eating habits. I need to eat less of it as industrially farmed meat has the biggest environmental impact than any other food. Buying local pasture raised meat is one way to lessen that impact. And finally, when I purchase meat, I need to buy organic and anti-biotic free.
B.
What?
A Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change is an article that relates our almost insatiable need of meat and dairy and the impact that our consumption of it has on the health of our bodies and our environment. The fertilizers and chemicals we apply to the ground to grow the feed for cows, the fuel we consume transporting the cows, the water we use, the gas that expelled from the cows, the manure we have to dispose of, etc., all affect the environment.
The article also discusses the health and environmental benefits of consuming free range beef vs grain fed feedlot beef. Finally the article covers the climate impact of raising one or the other type of beef.
So What?
My family owns a farm. We raised beef and my mother grew an incredible garden with which she canned the food we harvested off of it. Now I do as everyone else and buy most of my meat from a grocery store, never really giving much thought to what I personally am doing to harm the environment just by buying …show more content…
When nitrogen is applied to the ground in the method of fertilizer to help the agriculture crops grow, it can be washed off by rain or can seep down into the groundwater. If that water is used as a source of drinking water, the excess nitrogen in that water consumed by humans can cause cancer or respiratory problems. If there is too much nitrogen in bodies of water, it can result in the eutrophication and result in too much algae or even the death of the fish in the lake or coastal areas. When there is an overabundance in the water or in the soil, it can enter the atmosphere through smog as nitic oxide and cause breathing problems in humans. Over a period of time, it can also harm the trees and plants as it manifests itself in acid
1. This week’s session on sustainability hit very close to home with me. My adult children have been altering their consumption habits by buying organic, antibiotic free, and non-gmo products over the last few months. They have also been purchasing either free range or locally grown meats, local meat markets. After reading “A Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change”, I also altered my buying habits for the week.
I knew, from my daughters, that there were health benefits to eating organic and local grown products, but I didn’t realized that there were also environmental consequences. Unfortunately, since the publishing of this text, opinions of the differences between grain and grass fed beef have changed. Research I conducted on the …show more content…
#5. One way to change my diet would be to change my meat eating habits. I need to eat less of it as industrially farmed meat has the biggest environmental impact than any other food. Buying local pasture raised meat is one way to lessen that impact. And finally, when I purchase meat, I need to buy organic and anti-biotic free.
B.
What?
A Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change is an article that relates our almost insatiable need of meat and dairy and the impact that our consumption of it has on the health of our bodies and our environment. The fertilizers and chemicals we apply to the ground to grow the feed for cows, the fuel we consume transporting the cows, the water we use, the gas that expelled from the cows, the manure we have to dispose of, etc., all affect the environment.
The article also discusses the health and environmental benefits of consuming free range beef vs grain fed feedlot beef. Finally the article covers the climate impact of raising one or the other type of beef.
So What?
My family owns a farm. We raised beef and my mother grew an incredible garden with which she canned the food we harvested off of it. Now I do as everyone else and buy most of my meat from a grocery store, never really giving much thought to what I personally am doing to harm the environment just by buying …show more content…
When nitrogen is applied to the ground in the method of fertilizer to help the agriculture crops grow, it can be washed off by rain or can seep down into the groundwater. If that water is used as a source of drinking water, the excess nitrogen in that water consumed by humans can cause cancer or respiratory problems. If there is too much nitrogen in bodies of water, it can result in the eutrophication and result in too much algae or even the death of the fish in the lake or coastal areas. When there is an overabundance in the water or in the soil, it can enter the atmosphere through smog as nitic oxide and cause breathing problems in humans. Over a period of time, it can also harm the trees and plants as it manifests itself in acid