Post 3: Environmental Impacts of My Meal
For this post, I looked at the environmental impact of my meal. This included: Black beans mixed with brown rice, skinless rotisserie chicken, and plantain chips. Environmental Impacts/produced Black beans in the U.S. grocery stores usually come from the states like Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Nebraska. Outside the U.S., they might also come from Brazil. Black beans farming uses a lot of land, requiring irrigation. This can lead to strain on water supplies. However, the benefit of growing beans is that they add nitrogen back into the soil, helping soil health. Brown Rice is mostly grown in the south of the U.S.. You would find these grown specifically in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. If we're talking outside the country, some might be imported from India, Vietnam, and Thailand. Rice farms need huge amounts of water, and flooded rice paddies cause methane to be released. This is a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Since the farmland replaces na...