Putting your Best Food Forward
Written by Rhea Pai Edited by Prisha Jairath What is your food footprint? It’s likely that most of us are already somewhat aware of what we eat and what goes into our bodies. We worry that the creamy, delicious icing on the red velvet cupcake has too many calories or too much sugar. Or whether that one plate of fries is too fattening and occasionally if our beloved Kurkure is laced with plastic. But how often do we think of the effect our food has on the environment? Every food item we consume has a carbon footprint. It involves almost everything that goes into growing and producing the food, as well as what it takes to get said food to your local grocery store. These carbon footprints are the emissions of greenhouse gases—a major cause of climate change. Almost a quarter of these emissions are a result of food production, and most of them are from animal products. In the last few decades, our world has seen rising levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitro