Home grown food is a great way to eat heathy balanced means while producing things that will help the earth in the long run. When we purchase things from the store they are often made in factories and contain heavy packaging. When people are able to grow things at home, we are able to produce clean products that will help the earth even more in the long run. Here at O'Dowd High School we have a garden where we raise animals and grow food that we use in the cafeteria and once a week a soup made from only crops grown.

I believe you should eat home grown food. If you don't have the space for growing foods, you can resort in buying foods from local places such as farmer's markets. Driving to produce markets produces lots of CO2 harmful for our environment.

You are 100% correct, factories are one of the biggest problems throughout the world. But another problem is, not everyone does not have space to make a garden so they can have organic food.

These are all valid ways to reduce your carbon footprint. That's a good point about growing food close to you so you don't need to drive to somewhere further to get the food. Avoiding factory made foods will insure a reduce in your carbon footprint.

I agree with what you are saying. I think that having locally grown food is much better for the  environment. It will also do a lot to reduce people’s carbon footprint. Most of the food we buy from Safeway or Costco is not grown locally. To get the food we need and want into these grocery stores, they are shipped from other frames that aren’t even in the same state. Part of having such a high carbon footprint is transportation. The fuels that are used in trucks, planes, and trains to deliver food, and just putting more toxins into the air and increasing our carbon footprint. There are many greenhouse gas emissions being put into our air just because of the food we eat and buy.

According to Greeneatz, almost every U.S. household produces forty-eight tons of greenhouse gases. Thats way too much to be putting into our environment. Even the livestock that we eat is responsible for about eighteen percent of greenhouse gases. This is because some animals are raised in factories with bad conditions and are shipped around to other places. The compost and fertilizers that we us e are also burning fossil fuels, that that's not good for the environment either.
There are still many solutions to having a lower food carbon footprint. For starters, grow food in your own backyards and start composting the food that you do not eat instead of just throwing it into the garbage can. If possible, you could also buy organic food and locally grown food. Just by doing these small things, there will be less greenhouse gases, and fossil fuels in our air and the world will be a better place.

Works Cited
"Food and Climate Change." David Suzuki Foundation. Web. 29 Sept. 2016.
"Food’s Carbon Footprint." Green Eatz. Web. 29 Sept. 2016.

Aiden Leech
Laws
Biology Period 5
29 September 2016
    Home grown food would be a great way to go, while most people don’t have access to the space that would be required to grow most, or all, of their food, but any amount that they can grow would be great. In addition to growing food you could also get chickens so you can get eggs. In the future we could set up a way to give all the waste from those home grown foods to a facility that converts it into biofuel, turning food into energy. Home grown food would also eliminate packaging for those foods, that plastic wrapping does impact climate change.
   
       Stores should take steps to reduce their impact. They should eliminate as much packaging as possible, and make sure that they are using a method that minimizes environmental impact when they transport and/or produce food. Even when you go to stores you can reduce your carbon footprint. Provided you aren’t buying to much to carry and the store is within a couple miles of your house, you could walk. Walking should be encouraged, more flexible schedules should be created t o allow for people to walk from place to place. If you can’t walk, public transportation is an option, that way the number of vehicles carrying people is reduced. There are many ways to help with this issue and we should all do our part, no matter how small.
Work Cited
"Biofuels Basics." National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Home Page. N.p., n.d. Web.
29 Sept. 2016. <https://www.nrel.gov/workingwithus/re-biofuels.html>.
"Benefits of Renewable Energy Use." Union of Concerned Scientists. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept.
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