I think that growing your own food will better help the environment instead of help supporting produce that are made from factories. There are positive impacts to the environment and you when it comes to growing your own food. It might cost a lot of money at the moment or in the short term but in the long run, running your own farm is very beneficial and saves you a lot of money. You won’t be using engines or coal fueled emissions to collect or package food. Instead it’s picked by hand and can be packaged by reusable bags. Food packaging in the United States turns out to be 20% of our carbon footprint. My family has an apple tree and we grow our own tomatoes. We use our tiny gardens to help reduce our family’s footprint.

I agree, I use to raise livestock and it makes you more cautious of how wasteful you are being. We really don't need to be raising so many animals for food. there are currently 98.4 million registered cows in the united states alone. take that number and add the amount of cows in the rest of the world and that will equal an ungodly amount of cows, methane, and the factories that are used to process the meat. in conclusion we could help the environment by using as much as we can from animals and reducing the amount of animals we raise every year to help the world get back on track

Owen I agree. If you make your own food, that not only benefits you, but like you said, it will help cut down on the amount of food that is made in processing factories. Those are some of the main contributors to global warming.

I agree with what you said very heavily. I agree because some companies may have used some toxins in the growing of produce and you growing you produce yourself means that you know what you have put in your plants and what types of pesticides if you decide to use pesticides. http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/11357- … avoid.html

I totally agree that growing your own food or even buying locally grown food will benefit the environment. For example, according to One Green Planet, “When you take into account the typical energy cost of transporting food to your local grocer, it is estimated that an average distance of 1,500 miles is traveled before the food is consumed.” This shows how much our food has to travel before it even gets to us. By growing our own food we would shorten the energy cost of transporting our food and the food we consume would no longer have to travel just for our consumption which would benefit our environment. Transporting our food for such long distances relies on the burning of fossil fuels which is bad for the environment. A simple solution to this is growing or buying locally grown food. I propose that people make their own gardens as a source of their food. O’Dowd has a living lab where they use their grown food for the cafeteria which I think many schools should  try to do as well.
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I agree with this post. Someone buying local food or making their own food would greatly decrease their carbon footprint. According to http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/food-miles, carbon food emissions is 11% transportation processing, with only 1% of that being by plane. Even with plane, no type of transportation could replace the act of walking a few steps or driving a block compared to driving miles to a store where about 100 miles of CO2 was emitted from the transportation of the food to the store. This issue does not apply to only the U.S, but in the U.K as well. According to http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FMAS.php, “Since 1978, the annual amount of food moved by HGVs in the UK has increased by 23 percent with the average distance for each trip also up by 50 percent.”. If people decided to grow their own/ raise their own food instead of driving miles to a store where the food was travelled from far by truck or ship while emitting unnecessary CO2 in the process.