On block day Wednesday, we went out to the farm for about 20 minutes to harvest crops, and worked on the food miles assignment. In the food miles assignment we saw how many miles it takes for the ingredients to be available to us in order to make a cookie. Furthermore, the food miles assignment taught us to become more sustainable by buying local products instead of products that are shipped in from far away places in order to lower the CO2 emissions.
An interesting thing that I learned when doing this assignment is that the ingredients for a chocolate chip cookie travel 28,998 miles before they arrive to our homes, but it only takes 671 miles for local ingredients before they arrive to our house.
If we were to buy local ingredients, not only would we cut down CO2 emissions from the atmosphere, but we would also be supporting local small businesses as well.
An interesting thing that I learned when doing this assignment is that the ingredients for a chocolate chip cookie travel 28,998 miles before they arrive to our homes, but it only takes 671 miles for local ingredients before they arrive to our house.
If we were to buy local ingredients, not only would we cut down CO2 emissions from the atmosphere, but we would also be supporting local small businesses as well.
Moeen Chaya
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