Mastermoves Private Members Club

Making a Better World

by Oswaldo Koch

There is so much you can do by helping your community, your family, your friends, animals, the environment, and the planet! Little daily decision such as eating locally grown food can create or strengthen our sense of community and protect our environment. Locally grown food is better for your health, better for the planet, and the right choice to support local farmers and producers and your local economy.

The distribution of food across the world in cars and truck adds to pollution, congestion and climate change. For instance, the environmental cost of moving food in the UK was as much as £9bn a year, around half of it due to congestion. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs report said that 25% of all miles covered by heavy goods traffic was to move food. The quantity of food moved by road has doubled since 1974, the report said.

According to Columbia University, Americans' total yearly waste would fill a convoy of garbage trucks long enough to wrap around the Earth six times and reach halfway to the moon. Since 1950, people in the United States have used more resources than any generation who ever lived before them. Each American individual uses up 20 tons of basic raw materials annually. In a study done in 1996, Americans, who make up only five percent of the world's population, used nearly a third of its resources and produced almost half of its hazardous waste. By comparison, the average North American consumes ten times as much as the average person living in China and thirty times as much as the average person living in India.

Everything we eat has repercussions on our environment; therefore, choosing natural and locally produced food is optimal. When you stop eating processed food, you avoid making garbage in the first place; you don't have to worry about disposing of waste or recycling it later. Changing your eating habits is the key.

The purpose of The Core Challenge is to encourage the transition to a low-carbon, energy-efficient society that is based on consuming more regional produced healthy food and less unneeded toxic foods. This practice will protect the environment, support the local economy, and produce high-quality, safe, and affordable local food.

The practice of The Core Challenge suggests that avoiding processed food will reduce waste, save yourself time and money, and protect our environment at the same time. Also, choosing locally produced food reduces the need to move and transport large amounts of unneeded food around the world and so reduces pollution.

Live a Fit and Prosperous Life!