Ayshas Geography Blog

     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 ...

    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/