Have Your Cake And Eat It - Saves The Environment!

environment, health, waste

Modern eating habits that rely on takeouts, restaurants, pre-packaged meals, and too many processed snacks are placing a strain on an individual's health and on the environment from excess packaging and processing waste. Learning to cook may reduce household waste and usually improves overall health.

Environmental Costs of Not Cooking

Obesity and heart attacks are two of the biggest killers, and are mainly caused by unhealthy eating. Avoiding pre-packaged food has significant health benefits, reduces waste and preserves our land and energy resources. Plastic coated cardboard, plastic containers, glass bottle, tin cans and uneaten food scraps relentlessly add to the growing landfills, slowly poisoning the land for generations to come.

Methane gas released into the atmosphere from landfills is considered more harmful to global warming than carbon dioxide. The carbon footprint from transport networks needlessly moving raw ingredients from factory to factory along with non-renewable resources being expended to power the food processing factories adds to the damage, and is a significant contribution to global warming.

Benefits of Learning to Cook

Many people give up on cooking, citing lack of time or lack of ability, choosing instead to head for the car in search of a restaurant, takeout shop or supermarket for an instant meal. More people learning to cook might reverse some of the damage to an environment under strain, and could reduce the volume of waste produced.

Everyone needs to eat, and sometimes what we eat is not always healthy, learning to cook and finding the time to do so is a definite step forward. Using more fresh vegetables, herbs, fresh meats is healthier, and places less harmful chemicals and preservatives into the body.

Society benefits in many ways, from families coming together over meals, to less refuse needing to be collected, and the obvious improvement to over-stretched health services. Learning to cook does help the environment and the quality of your personal nutrition habits.