Introduction
Hello Fellow Food Eaters,
Before being assigned this blog the thought of how much gas and energy goes into producing, packaging and transporting the food we eat never crossed my mind. As I continue to investigate I am becoming more and more aware of just how much gas, energy and work goes into producing all our food. I’ve also realized that many times the “cheapest” foods are the ones that seem to have more of an environmental impact. Unfortunately, on a student budget (always being broke) that is a tough thing to hear.
Everyone in the world needs food to survive and the fact that we have more people than we have food can sometimes be a problem. Machinery and science have allowed us to produce more food than we could ever imagine but there is an important catch, in order to produce lots of food we need to use up another resource… oil. Oil fuels the cars we drive and the machines we operate, oil fuels our heat. So how much oil fuels our food making? That I do not know but I hope that writing this blog will bring me closer to figuring it out.
I’ve documented my eating for 24 hours and then have begun to investigate into the cultivation, production, packaging and transport process. Hopefully I will be able to better understand how much oil is involved in the making of our food and learn to make better choices when selecting foods at the supermarket.
Check back in for the conclusion, and in the meantime, happy EATING!
– Nicole Rosa
Citations
In addition, If there is a link in “( )” at the end of a paragraph, it means that I have taken the facts written in the paragraph from the provided website. Before this blog, I had no idea how most of these products were made. Clicking on the website will provide you will an even more detailed explanation of how each thing was produced. In addition, all references to “Manning” come from his article “The Oil We Eat“.