I have no way of telling you what is in this almond butter as it is unlabelled and I did not purchase it.

Locations:
– Peru
– United States
– Japan
– Canada
– Mediterranean

One simple breakfast wrap contains items from five countries. It takes a substantial amount of fuel to get the ingredients together in one location to be made into the product. It then takes more fuel to get the different items sent to the store and then brought back to my house for me to put together into my breakfast.

I’m still trying to grasp my head around Mannings idea that food is oil. I am confused as to why food is so cheap if it uses so much oil and releases so much CO2 into the atmosphere. Why can I buy three packages of raspberries from California on sale for $5? To me I feel like the amount I pay does not equal the strain it has put onto various Earth systems. Am I supposed to feel good about the fact I can recycle all of the packaging it came in? Does this outweigh everything else?

The packaging my breakfast came in was a recyclable bag for the wrap, a recyclable container for the strawberries, a recyclable container for the almond butter and a compostable banana peel for the banana. The packaging doesn’t make me feel better because the recycling of plastics involves a plastic being transformed into a plastic of lesser quality, so it actually degrades over time and cannot replace itself.(1)

(1) “The Truth About Recycling Plastic.” Green Rock. n.d. Web. 12 July 2013.