Healthy eating habits are important towards helping the state of the environment. According to food writer Michael Pollan, eating local sustainable foods (or food that comes from small organic farms in your area) is essential to improving the health of the world. When more organic plants are growing, they release more oxygen into the environment and absorb more carbon dioxide. Although sustainable living may be slightly more expensive than eating fast food, it is exponentially more helpful towards the cause of preventing the world from warming. And once these plants are eaten, they improve the health of the people eating them.
Sustainable animals that come from small farms are the best to eat also. Environmentally, organic animal products reduce emissions that would have been produced on feedlots or nonorganic farms. Nutritionally, organic animal products have amazing effects on health and the body compared to processed foods. 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from dairy and livestock production, which takes up much of the world’s land and resources. It’s also as simple as not buying too much food at the supermarket: “...half of all food produced worldwide is wasted after production, discarded in processing, transport, supermarkets and kitchens”. |