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  • Essay / The importance of the ecological footprint - 726

    Personally, I eat strawberry Poptarts two to three times a week. Taking into account all the ingredients – all 41 – there are many food miles. Three of the ingredients in Poptarts are wheat flour, dried strawberries and soybean oil, all of which contain food miles that impact our ecological footprint. The wheat flour in the Poptarts most likely came from a farm in North Dakota and/or Michigan (Kellogg's). In respectable order, here are the food miles traveled from these farms to me, 1,045 and 28. Kellogg's Poptarts claim to contain dried strawberries and also claim to use crops from farms near the manufacturing plant, but Since the don't even list the state they came from, it's likely the strawberries came from California or Florida, 2,367 food miles or 1,280 food miles from me. Poptarts also contain soybean oil, which is probably also produced in North Dakota and/or Michigan.