I recently made some tacos this past week for dinner. The ingredients I use when I make tacos is ground beef, taco seasoning, sour cream, lettuces, cheese, and sometimes black olives. Sour cream is made from light cream and contains no less than 19 percent milk fat. Sour cream is produced by adding a culture of Streptococcus lactic to pasteurized light cream and incubating at 72 degrees Fahrenheit until the desired flavor and thickness is reached. Tomatoes are commonly grow from seedlings started indoors that are later transplanted into the garden. They are planted indoors as early as 6 to 8 weeks before the average date of the last spring frost. Then they are transplanted into the garden 1 to 3 weeks after the last frost. Ground beef is processed meat, any meats that are not fresh. Processed meat has been modified from its natural state, either through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavor or improve preservation.
Since sour cream is made form milk, the dairy industry's share of total of US greenhouse gas emissions from farm to consumer, including waste. The global dairy sector increased by 18 percent between 2005 and 2015, the US and more than 93 percent of that water is used to grow feed for dairy cattle. Tomatoes does not have a negative impacted on the environment as long as pesticides have not been used on them. If they used pesticides then it could contaminate the air, water, and soil. Ground beef does impact the environment the most out of the three products I've talked about. It produces 11 times more greenhouse gases than staple plant-based foods. An example of how much CO2 is released into the atmosphere from beef being produced is for every kilogram of beef it is 26 kilograms of CO2.
I got all these products from the grocery store. I used my car as transportation. I would consider all the ingredients to be "local" and I mean "local" is by having them produced in Wisconsin. The waste the sour cream created was the plastic container it was in and the ground beef is the plastic wrapper and container it was in and it also creates grease as waste. The waste went into the garbage which when into a waste field which has a huge impact on the environment.
https://www.californiadairypressroom.com/Products/Sour_Cream
https://harvesttotable.com/how_to_grow_tomatoes/#Quick_Tomato_Growing_Guide
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/faq-exactly-processed-meat-avoid-questions
https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/winter-2019/articles/milk-s-impact-on-the-environment
https://www.livekindly.com/red-meat-planet/#:~:text=Beef%20production%20is%20particularly%20harmful,is%20released%20into%20the%20atmosphere.
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