Post 4: Environmental Geography of My Meal
In this post, I took a deep dive into the environmental impacts of my meal that include black beans mixed with brown rice, skinless rotisserie chicken, and plantain chips. This meal is very healthy, and indeed has some green qualities that can help us think about better food choices. Global Scale In a global scale point of view, my meal supports the concept of lower proteins and plant-based foods. Like beef or dairy carry much of a larger footprint than comparing it to brown rice and black beans. While chicken isn’t perfect, it uses fewer resources than other meats such as red meat. Plantain grows in tropical regions, which often require less use of chemical inputs than other industrial crops. If more people in this world replaced heavier impact meals with meals that included these kinds of food, it would help lower greenhouse gas emissions, in addition to reducing stress on water systems and land. Local Scale From a local scale point of view, chicken, beans, and rice are widely ...