Blog Post #4: Environmental geography of your breakfast
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 ...