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    Eating green involves making food choices that are healthy for both people and the planet. The document discusses how industrial agriculture uses chemicals that pollute the environment and enter our bodies, potentially causing health issues. It recommends eating local and low on the food chain to reduce environmental impacts like greenhouse gas emissions from long-distance transport and intensive meat production. Specific tips provided include shopping on the perimeter of the grocery store, limiting packaging, and doing what small actions one can to eat in a more sustainable way.

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    Eating green involves making food choices that are healthy for both people and the planet. The document discusses how industrial agriculture uses chemicals that pollute the environment and enter our bodies, potentially causing health issues. It recommends eating local and low on the food chain to reduce environmental impacts like greenhouse gas emissions from long-distance transport and intensive meat production. Specific tips provided include shopping on the perimeter of the grocery store, limiting packaging, and doing what small actions one can to eat in a more sustainable way.

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    Eating green involves making food choices that are healthy for both people and the planet. The document discusses how industrial agriculture uses chemicals that pollute the environment and enter our bodies, potentially causing health issues. It recommends eating local and low on the food chain to reduce environmental impacts like greenhouse gas emissions from long-distance transport and intensive meat production. Specific tips provided include shopping on the perimeter of the grocery store, limiting packaging, and doing what small actions one can to eat in a more sustainable way.

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    By: Amber Donaldson

    What is eating green?


    -Eating green is eating with purpose in a way that is good for both you and the planet. -Our food choices are some of our most direct ways to make a difference because we all eat everyday.

    Key terms
    Fair-respectable trade partnership Local-local, sustainable farms/ community Organic-no synthetic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, antibiotics, added hormones/better on land

    Our health
    Americans consume 14 lbs of chemicals/year. 500 manmade chemicals in our blood 60% herbicides, fungicides, insecticides potentially cancer-causing Kidney diseases, birth defects, brain diseases, etc. More calories, added sugars/less nutrients

    Our planets health


    Monocultures
    Reduced diversity Water Resistance

    Fuel
    400 gallons/person/year 1500 miles Global warming-meat

    How to eat green


    Local:1 meal/ week=1.1mill barrels/ week Low on the food chain:5000, 21 gallons FOOD-Pollan Shop the periphery Packaging Do what you can

    Eating Green on Campus


    Real Food Challenge Dining Services Pot luck Petition

    Eating home-cooked meals from whole in-season ingredients obtained from the most local source available is eating well, in every sense. Good for the habitat, good for the body.
    -Barbara Kingsolver

    Sources
    Pollan: Food Rules, In Defense of Food Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A year of food life Horn: Living Green USDA: usda.gov Dr. Michael McKinney

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