Eating Local Food (Rethink)

(University Work, Feb. 2009 )
To date 56% of all food products available in our supermarkets have been imported from other countries and we are also
exporting 10 billion pounds worth of food. All of this importing and exporting food causes damage to the atmosphere.
This is due to the amount of carbon dioxide that is being released for such journeys.

We import food by boat, train and even have some food flown over from other countries. All this traveling is causing CO2
to be released into the atmosphere countributing to global warming. We presented this length of distance by making black
strings, which stood for CO2 footprint in supermarkets and markets.

Supporting our local farms by purchasing from them would be much more eco-friendly, as well as being beneficial
to home countries self-sufficiency. It is designed to encourage shoppers to re-think the types of products they are purchasing.