Unit 6 Assignment
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Unit 6 Assignment
Sara Dooley
Kaplan University
Unit 6 Assignment
Humans in the United States are used to going to the grocery store and having a plethora of different kinds of food at our disposal. Most grocery stores will carry foods from all over the world and stock their shelves. People will buy groceries for all their meals and not realize that these foods are not just from the local grocery store, but have come from somewhere else. In fact, grocery stores are equipped with fruit and vegetables year round even though it may not be the season for them. By the time all the ingredients for one meal arrive in North America, it has traveled at least 1500 to 4000 miles (Macpherson, 2007). Economical and environmental impacts could come from such travel.
When looking at a basic meal, each item may come from a different place before being purchased at the local grocery store. A healthy salad that consists of romaine lettuce, cucumbers, and grape tomatoes seems like a simple meal, but each part can come from a different place before sitting in the store. Domestic U.S. harvest of romaine lettuce comes from California and is available year round (The World’s Healthiest Foods, 2015). Florida and California provide U.S. consumers’ cucumbers for most of the year and they are imported from Mexico in the winter months (World’s Healthiest Foods, 2015). The peak commercial production of grape tomatoes is Florida and California, however they can be found year round in greenhouses in most states (USDA, n.d.).
For a main meal of chicken, rice, and broccoli, once again these ingredients came from somewhere prior to being in the local grocery store. Chicken can be locally grown and there are many different kinds of chicken to buy at the stores. Most chicken comes for factory farms unless it is organic chicken. On average about 250,000 chickens are processed at a plant everyday and there are about 120 processing plants in the United States (Maintstreet, 2009...
Sara Dooley
Kaplan University
Unit 6 Assignment
Humans in the United States are used to going to the grocery store and having a plethora of different kinds of food at our disposal. Most grocery stores will carry foods from all over the world and stock their shelves. People will buy groceries for all their meals and not realize that these foods are not just from the local grocery store, but have come from somewhere else. In fact, grocery stores are equipped with fruit and vegetables year round even though it may not be the season for them. By the time all the ingredients for one meal arrive in North America, it has traveled at least 1500 to 4000 miles (Macpherson, 2007). Economical and environmental impacts could come from such travel.
When looking at a basic meal, each item may come from a different place before being purchased at the local grocery store. A healthy salad that consists of romaine lettuce, cucumbers, and grape tomatoes seems like a simple meal, but each part can come from a different place before sitting in the store. Domestic U.S. harvest of romaine lettuce comes from California and is available year round (The World’s Healthiest Foods, 2015). Florida and California provide U.S. consumers’ cucumbers for most of the year and they are imported from Mexico in the winter months (World’s Healthiest Foods, 2015). The peak commercial production of grape tomatoes is Florida and California, however they can be found year round in greenhouses in most states (USDA, n.d.).
For a main meal of chicken, rice, and broccoli, once again these ingredients came from somewhere prior to being in the local grocery store. Chicken can be locally grown and there are many different kinds of chicken to buy at the stores. Most chicken comes for factory farms unless it is organic chicken. On average about 250,000 chickens are processed at a plant everyday and there are about 120 processing plants in the United States (Maintstreet, 2009...