Carbon Footprints: Food
Eat foods + ingredients with low carbon footprints. Eliminate foods + ingredients with high carbon footprints. Buy food that is seasonal, local, with minimal packaging and less goods that require refrigeration or freezing.
HEALabel – Carbon Footprints of Foods List
The Truth About: Bananas
Research began in the early 1900s to develop a disease-resistant banana, which led to the introduction of the Cavendish banana—the kind we find in the produce department of grocery stores today. Like many agricultural commodities, however, this seemingly wholesome food has a dark history.
Food Empowerment Project – Peeling Back the Truth on Bananas
The Truth About: Palm-Oil
The Truth About: Flowers
Just like animal agriculture, the commercial flower industry is rife with production practices involving toxic chemicals, excessive consumption of natural resources, and unfair labor.
VegNews – How and Where to Buy Eco-Friendly Flowers