How much does eating locally-produced food help the climate problem? What are the other potential environmental and social benefits of eating locally-grown/produced food? Do you have a food garden in your school or at home? If not, do you want one?
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Is Food the cause for the climate change?
According to the "David Suzuki Foundation", one of the main caused for climate change is agriculture. Meat production is one of the leading causes for this problem. Agriculture releases a considerable volume of greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide. Too much of those greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is harmful. Eating locally-produced food will help the climate change because transporting foods from other countries adds emissions into the atmosphere, which will have a negative effect on Earth.
Great question Makana, I never would of thought about agriculture being a lead cause of climate change in our community, but we learn something new everyday. I like the research and data you have about the CO2 release coming from mass meat production but https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/gl … mperature/ also has some good data on other sources that contribute to climate change.
Somewhat, food does cause global warming because of destroying land for crops. CO2 is released because of mass food productions. But it is not as important as other factors to global warming.
I think food it self is not causing it but the amount of energy it self required to produce the food is definitely contributing to global worming. The main contributor to global worming is CO2 emission form burning fusel fuels.