Food miles are “the distance a product travels from the farm to your home” (Specter, 276). Michael Specter’s Bigfoot talks about the global warming problem on our planet and how to fix it. The main suggestion in the article is to create a carbon-neutral community so pollution is greatly reduced. To be exact, this would be equivalent to taking 100,000 cars with all of those toxic gases and fumes off of the street. The food miles are a big deal because, like the example in the article, you can just get food from a local farm, but if it’s not quality, eating the potatoes from the farm could be just like eating French fries from the local McDonalds, which is why food miles are extremely important. It’s better to get your food from farther for maybe a little bit more money than not because the quality is much better, and the carbon footprint is nearly non-existant.
I do not personally feel responsible for global warming. I think that everyone in the world is a little responsible for it because, let’s face it, we did this to ourselves. With all the Hummer H3s riding around and all the extra pollution, it was bound to happen. I might be a little responsible, but I’m certainly not going to put a lot of the blame on myself when there are over 2 billion humans on the planet that had just as big, probably bigger, a part in the cause of global warming as I did.
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I really like Specter' idea of "food miles" in this article because having taken an environmental class last year I can finally understand what he is talking about. The idea of us getting our food from around the world when we can grow the same thing practically in our own backyard is absurd, but it is something that must be brought into the light for a lot of people.
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