Topic > The importance of the ecological footprint - 726

Personally I eat a strawberry poptart two or three times a week. Considering all the ingredients, 41 in all, the food miles are many. Three of the ingredients featured in Poptarts are wheat flour, dried strawberries and soybean oil, all of which come with food miles that impact our carbon footprint. The wheat flour in the Poptarts most likely came from a farm in North Dakota and/or Michigan (Kellogg's). In respectable order, the following are the food miles from those farms to me, 1,045 and 28. Kellogg's Poptarts claim to contain dried strawberries and also claim to use crops from farms close to the manufacturing plant, but given that I don't even list the state they come from, the strawberries are likely to come from California or Florida, 2,367 food miles or 1,280 food miles from me. Poptarts also contain soybean oil, which is likely also produced in North Dakota and/or Michigan