One thing that this article doesn’t mention but is important to the idea of climate cooking is that one of the most important aspects is actually cooking — from scratch. Processed foods tend to...
One thing that this article doesn’t mention but is important to the idea of climate cooking is that one of the most important aspects is actually cooking — from scratch. Processed foods tend to have more environmental impact from packaging and ingredient choice/sourcing. Most processed foods are going to be packaged in plastic made from petroleum, and a huge number of them are made with Palm Oil which is made from the oil palm which is mostly grown in places like Africa and Malaysia, where the demand for it has been a cause of deforestation.
One thing that this article doesn’t mention but is important to the idea of climate cooking is that one of the most important aspects is actually cooking — from scratch. Processed foods tend to have more environmental impact from packaging and ingredient choice/sourcing. Most processed foods are going to be packaged in plastic made from petroleum, and a huge number of them are made with Palm Oil which is made from the oil palm which is mostly grown in places like Africa and Malaysia, where the demand for it has been a cause of deforestation.