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Blog Post 4: Let's go Green!

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     My previous meal consisting of tomato basil soup, grilled cheese, cucumbers, grapes, and a banana has some significant environmental impacts. The cheese, while sourced locally from the Wisconsin Cheese Company, is likely produced through dairy farming practices that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, overuse of water, and deforestation. Additionally, the banana is grown in countries with intensive farming systems that lead to deforestation, pesticide use, and soil degradation. These environmental costs are compounded by the transportation of both products, which results in carbon emissions from the trucks used to transport them. Global or National Scale Solutions:      On a global scale, solutions would need to focus on promoting sustainable dairy farming and better transparency in supply chains. Regulations could be formed to reduce emissions from dairy production and encourage farms to adopt more environmentally friendly practices.  One ex...
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Blog Post 3: Does our Food Kill?

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       According to the UWM dining website, they get their food sustainably, but how true is this? In my previous blog post I described eating a meal that consisted of tomato basil soup, a grilled cheese sandwich, cucumbers, grapes, and a banana. For this post I will be going into detail on where the cheese of my grilled cheese was produced, as well as where they most likely get their bananas. The cheese comes from the Wisconsin Cheese Company, but where do they get their cheese from? When looking at their website there is no mention of where they farm their dairy or where they get their cheese. Without being able to trace what exact far m this cheese specifically came from it makes it hard to know exactly where it was produced.      Dairy might be delicious, but that deliciousness comes with a heavy price. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, milk production globally increased by 30 percent between 2005 and 2015 ...
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Blog Post 2: Option A

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Today for lunch I had a comforting meal consisting of tomato basil soup, a grilled cheese sandwich, grapes, a banana, and cucumbers. Now, let's dive deeper into what was in really in my meal. The tomato basil soup was from the dining hall. It obviously had basil, but it tasted cream based and had chunks of tomato inside. The soup is vegetarian, so I believe they must have used vegetable broth rather than chicken or another meat broth. The grilled cheese was made with wheat bread, American cheese, grilled peppers, and mayo. The grapes, banana, and cucumbers are pretty self-explanatory ingredient wise, but they still tasted delicious! Here are visual aspects of what I ate for lunch as well. The grilled cheese even has veggies like mine did! Additionally, with this being a dairy based meal, I could not help but think of all the dairy farms in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, Wisconsin has lost nearly half of its dairy farms in the last 10 years. As someone who has friends in the dairy farm i...
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Blog 1: Killer Plastic Bags

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 Geographical issues: 1. Plastic bags have been one of the worst environmental issues since they were invented. Plastic bags do not break up overtime, leading to tons of waste, both on land and in our oceans. A city in Kenya, Nairobi, is just one of many cities that have been heavily impacted by plastic bags. The land cannot be used for agriculture due to the plastic bags taking over the land, and the animals eating the plastic due to not having enough to eat. The city streets are filled with plastic, making it impossible to avoid and an eyesore. These bags even produce health risks on the residents of Nairobi. Mosquitos are attracted towards the plastic bags when it rains, and they carry diseases like Malaria. These many issues are not just a reality for Nairobi, but many other cities.   What now? 2 and 3. Another African city, Mumbai, combated this issue. They banned "thin bags" and had an anti-bag police squad. People who use thin bags receive a fine, equivalent t...
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