- I wasn’t trying to be particularly green today. In fact I tried to choose foods that I felt were the typical types of things a busy North American would buy.
- In general I don’t really have any idea where most of my food comes from.
- Packaging was a part of oil consumption of my food. I tended to eat a lot of foods today that were packaged in a way that likely consumed fossil fuels during their production.
- Ingredients in even my most innocuous items for the day were wildly separated geographically. I literally consumed items produced in all areas of the planet.
- There was a surprising lack of information on products and their websites as to where exactly the foods and their ingredients exactly came from. I found myself guessing a lot about where items originated.
- It’s quite hard to pin down an exact carbon foodprint of your food use unless you only buy locally produced food. There are many factors which I felt difficult to fully include in my assessment.
- http://www.klamathsustainablecommunities.org/articles/transp/UKfreightTransportCO2Emissions.pdf