Fertilizing Your Footprint And Fertilizing Your Food

Check your labels, ladies and gents! And no, not for nitrogen! Today, M&M brings you the black magic of fertilizer. While those corn bread may look super tasty, and that beef may look tender and utterly delectable it many be putting more pounds on your hips that you were expecting. Also, how on earth could corn bread and beef be related in anyway!? Well here is the down low. Bread and Beef both need a common ingredient... corn! Other plants that we use everyday can be thrown into this category, so don't fall to the allure of industrial farming. So this whole concept can be simplified into a kind of equation, corn+nitrogen=lots of corn. Pretty simple right? Well that lots of corn goes into making grain for beef cattle, and it makes lots of corn products for massed produced prepackaged food. The type you always buy at the grocery store.
So, keep up with me now, you eat massed produced food and I can guarantee that a yeti sized supply of nitrogen has been dumped on it to make it grow. Thus causing a huge increase in your big foot foot print. Not to mention that increased fertilization can have a negative impact on mamma earth. You see, there are these things called phytoplankton that are smaller than a hair on a yeti's head, and they really like to take up nitrogen to grow because they're just like plants. I'll throw that formula back at you one more time but using phytoplankton instead of corn, phytoplankton+nitrogen=lots of phytoplankton. Basically, these little organisms can create dead zones in the ocean after they take over an area! Pretty scary right!
Now that I've rambled on about the nitty gritty, Ill share some of those delicious treats I promised. Try and buy from local farms, not only will food be ten times more yummy, ten times better for you, but it will also cut a chunk off your slightly chubby footprint! This includes meat and any other food you can imagine. Think twice about picking up a bag of chips compared to a piece of fruit from a local orchard. Join a CSA, a food group that can bring you monthly rations of all your favorite animals! And even though buying local organic meat might be better for the environment, no meat  is an even better option. Try cutting some meat out of your diet! Those pounds will come off easier than ever!