Is your food local

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Is your food local?

• Erin Hume

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Monday Day 1

• No breakfast
• Lunch Old Chicago pizza
• 2 slices of pizza
• 1 caesar salad
• Dinner Paradise Bakery
• Chicken salad wrap
• Cup of fire roasted tomato soup

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Tuesday Day 2

• Breakfast bowl of frosted Cheerios
• Lunch Chipotle
• Half of a chicken burrito
• Dinner McDonalds
• 1 McDouble
• 1 Hot n Spicy McChicken

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Wednesday Day 3

• Breakfast Nutrigrain fruit bar
• Lunch Subway
• 6 inch turkey sandwich
• Dinner Bertolli Chicken Parmesan frozen dinner
• Pasta with chicken breast
• 1 dinner roll

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Thursday Day 4

• No breakfast
• Lunch Paradise Bakery
• Half of a tuna salad sandwich
• Cup of fire roasted tomato soup
• Dinner Los Favoritos Taco Shop
• 3 rolled chicken tacos with rice and beans
• Dessert Chocolate Ice Cream

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Friday Day 5

• No breakfast
• Lunch Turkey sandwich at home
• Dinner Jack in the Box
• 2 tacos
• 1 jr bacon cheeseburger

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Saturday Day 6

• No breakfast
• Lunch Dillys Deli
• Chicken caesar salad wrap
• Dinner Hot dogs and French fries at home

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Sunday Day 7

• Breakfast Granola bar
• Lunch Paradise Bakery
• Southwest chicken caesar salad
• Southwest chicken sandwich
• Dinner Frozen pizza at home

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How much of this food is grown locally?

• Paradise Bakery
• Upon asking my manager where we get our food sent
  to us from, I determined that none of the food
  used in our café is grown locally. Most of it
  comes from California, while a few items come
  from Florida.
• McDonalds
• Technically none of the food we use is local
  food. However we do use the freshest, highest
  quality ingredients.- Mona Snell, General
  Manager of local McDonalds.

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How much of this food is grown locally?
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• Subway
• In store, I spoke with an employee and found out
  that they do not get there food from local
  farmers, they get it shipped from various parts
  of the country.
• Safeway Grocery Store
• Gets there produce shipped from different areas
  of the country where the items grow the best.

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What are the benefits of local food?

• Local food is healthier. Theres less time from
  when the food is harvested to when it reaches
  your mouth.
• Companies use less fuel getting the food. Using
  less fuel leads to less oil consumption and less
  pollution
• Supporting local farmers and local agriculture.
  It is better to keep the money in the community
  rather than giving it to big corporations.

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Why Not Local Food?

• A trend you can see among many businesses is not
  buying local food from local farmers. Some
  reasons they dont buy food locally are
• Corporate standards- Each restaurant uses the
  same things from the same place.
• Farmers do not grow enough produce to support all
  of the local restaurants.
• Not enough people are concerned with where their
  food comes from and dont care if there food is
  local or not

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Some Solutions to the Problem

• Grow your own food! More people need to grow
  gardens, even if it does not consist of much.
  Wendell Berry, author of the article On the
  Pleasures of Eating, says that to truly
  understand the pleasure of eating, one must
  understand the love and work that can come from
  producing your own food

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Some Solutions to the Problem

• Visit your local farmers and farmers markets.
• You can learn a great amount of knowledge about
  food and how it is grown by visiting these
  places.

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Singh Farms

• When I visited Ken Singhs Farm off of the 101
  and Thomas Rd. I was amazed by what he was doing.
• Mr. Singhs farm was run by only the members of
  his family and all of the vegetables and fruits
  he grew he gave to local hotels like the Hilton
  and the Sheridan.
• This is a perfect way to put local food into the
  community.
• Mr. Singh also takes ASUs green waste and turns
  it into compost for them and everyone to use.

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