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Food in the Nude
The food You Eat:
Exposed!
Analyzing Cheez-its and Doritos
Vs.
Cheez-its Ingredients Location
WisconsinCalifornia
IowaIndonesia
Doritos Ingredients Locations
North Dakota Iowa
WisconsinCalifornia
MexicoIndiana
How far have these ingredients travelled?
Food Miles for Cheez-its
LocationsWisconsinIowaIndonesiaCalifornia
Manufacturing Location
•Kansas City, Kansas
15,397.7 miles
Food Miles for Doritos
Locations : Manufacturing
Location:North DakotaIowaWisconsinCalifornia (Gilroy)Mexico
Jacksonville, Florida
17,107.8 Miles
How far is that?!
7,488 miles!
How far is that?!That’s enough to stretch half way around the Earth!
15,397.7
17,107.8
How many CO2 emissions?
17,107.8 miles= 160 tons of CO2 emissions*
15,397.7 miles= 140 tons of CO2 emissions*
*Calculations for CO2 emissions from the website: http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm
What is LOCAL?
What We Consider “Local”
Specifications for our “Local”
1. Local will be defined as within the geographical area of Central NY
2. Processing/manufacturing or physical store location is “local”
3. The ingredients used to make the product are sourced from “local” resources
Buy Local!
Reasons to Buy Local:
1. Less food miles/co2 emissions
2. Better quality/better prices
3. Helping the local community
4. More control over your diet
5. Knowledge of where you food comes from!
Buy local at the Ithaca
Farmer’s Market!
Local Foods Served at IC!
Find it in Towers Fresh Food Market!
Served in the Dining Halls!
Tracking Local Food at IC!
Byrne Dairy
• Began selling in 1933- glass bottles and delivering it to Central New York homes in horse-drawn wagons. • Based in Central New York, Byrne Dairy works with over 250 local family farms.• Byrne Dairy’s average farm is only 35 miles from it’s plants where they receive around 50 million pounds of milk each month. •Byrne Dairy currently has three manufacturing in Syracuse, N.Y and in DeWitt, N.Y
Local Farms of Byrne Dairy
Doubledale Farm
Memory Lane Farms
Silver Springs Farm
The Elmer Richards and Son Farm
Byrne Dairy Food Miles
Dairy Farms: Manufacturing Location:
Mannsville, NY Syracuse, NY Marietta, NY DeWitt, NYElbridge, NY Ithaca,
NYSyracuse, NYSkaneateles, NY
165.3 Miles
! 190.3 Miles!
Finger Lakes Fresh
A hydroponics greenhouse that employs 18 workers with disabilities.
Originally developed by Cornell University as a research project for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) to create year round agriculture in New York State.
Cornell partnered with Challenge Provides a significant portion of the labor for seeding,
transplanting harvesting and packaging. Utilizes renewable energy harnessed through processing
waste biogas
Finger Lakes Fresh Food Miles
Location: Ithaca College
10 Pinckney Road, 953 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850 Ithaca, NY 14850 6.8
Miles!
Purdy and Sons
“Truly farm to fork, the most direct connection to where an animal is raised.”
Richard H Purdy, sole proprietor for five decades until 2000; Daniel R Purdy and his wife Vicky
Do not use hormones
Grass Fed beef, pork, and lamb
Purdy and Sons Food Miles
Farms:JD Farms-Georgetown, NY
16. 3 Miles
Processing: Ithaca, NYSherburne, NY
Avg: 127-253 Miles
How many CO2 emissions?
Byrne Dairy = 1.5-1.8 Tons
Finger Lakes Fresh= 0.06 Tons
Purdy and Sons= 1.2-2.4 Tons
How many trees?
Total Food Miles=32,505.5 Miles= 128 Trees!
Total Food Miles=373.8 Miles= 0.3 Trees
127 Trees Saved!
Support Local Tonight!
Charleston Market:Pork loin - Purdy & SonsEggplant Pastitisio-(featuring Byrne Dairy Yogurt in in the
Béchamel sauce)
Simple Servings:Featuring Finger Lakes Fresh
Food Lab:Pasta Arabiatta - Featuring Smoked Pork Loin - Purdy & Sons Local Apple Cider-Beak and Skiff
Terrace Dining Hall : Local Foods Celebration
Local Sample!
• LaFayette, NY
• Charles Beak and George
Skiff
• Fifth Generation Orchard
• Flash Pasteurization Won Best Apples and Cider of NY State
Contact Us!
Sustainability Interns: [email protected]
Nutrition Interns: [email protected]
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PowerPoint created by: Kat Lawton, Sustainability Intern
