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Blog Post #4: Environmental geography of your breakfast

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     When reflecting on my breakfast of pancakes, bacon, hash browns, fruit, eggs and apple pie, it can be concluded that the product that is having the greatest environmental effects is bacon. Bacon production is a problem. Its production is having adverse environmental consequences that can be considered at many different scales. At the national and global scale, there are actions that can be taken to reduce the environmental impacts associated with bacon. More recently, pig slaughterhouses have switched from stunning them with electricity to gassing them with carbon dioxide. This production and release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change which is a global issue. Banning the use of carbon dioxide in slaughterhouses would require a new method of slaughter for pork production which is a limitation to this. This source provides more information on the impact of gassing pigs in ...
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Blog Post #3- The Environmental Costs of Breakfast

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     The environmental impacts of producing my breakfast of pancakes, bacon, hash browns, fruit, eggs and apple pie reach further than one might think. The majority of bacon consumed in Wisconsin is produced by Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats. This production of smoking bacon takes place in Wittenberg Wisconsin. Then, when examining the production of the eggs I had with my breakfast, they were most likely also produced in Wisconsin. The production of bacon and eggs have very hazardous effects to groundwater, in fact to produce a single strip of bacon, a quantity of manure 80 times the weight of that strip was produced. On most industrial pig farms such as Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats, this manure is stored and then spread upon nearby fields. This manure cannot all be absorbed by the field and therefore manure pollution leaks into groundwater, polluting it. The runoff of manure from egg facilities also leaks into surface water and carries excess nitrogen and phosphorus ...
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Blog Post #2- Introducing your meal or product

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    The meal that I chose to describe is my brunch from the restaurant Comet Cafe yesterday. The breakfast included two pancakes, two strips of bacon, hash browns, a cup of fruit and two eggs. The ingredients used in the pancakes were flour, baking powder, white sugar, salt, milk, butter and egg. The fruits in the cup of fruit were grapes, pineapple, cantelope and strawberries. For dessert I had a slice of apple pie. The apple pies ingredients included apples, sugar, brown sugar, flour, ground  cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice, egg and pie crust. Below I included a photo similar to my breakfast spread as well as a recipe for apple pie.  https://littlespoonfarm.com/apple-pie-recipe/
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Blog post #1: Environmental impacts of the plastic bag

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    In today's day and age, it is widely acknowledged that we are facing a global environmental crisis. One of the specifics of this crisis is our population's overconsumption of non sustainable products that inevitably harm our environment. One of these products is the plastic bag.  Throughout viewing the Youtube video, "Battle of the Bag" I learned more thoroughly about local impacts of plastic bag waste on the environment. Prior to watching this informative video, I did not know of the mountains of garbage and plastic waste in Delhi, India. Similarly, I was unaware that cattle are free to roam throughout India and are attracted to these dumps, looking for something to eat. In turn, cattle eat the plastic and can die from this through their digestive tract being blocked. This is particularly disheartening as cattle are worshiped in India. One way the people of India are attempting to manage this problem is by volunteer veterinarians performing surgery on these cattl...
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