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Courtney Lasserre

GC21 SSB

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 75 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    1.0
    whole food meal
    consumed
  • UP TO
    1.0
    meatless or vegan meal
    consumed

Courtney's actions

Waste

Personal Waste Audit

I will collect all of my unrecyclable, non-compostable trash to raise my awareness of how much I send to the landfill.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Reduce Animal Products

I will enjoy 2 meatless meal(s) and/or 1 vegan meal(s) each day this week.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Waste

Reduce Single-Use Disposables

Cheap, single-use items and disposable packaging end up blowing around as litter more often in poor and POC-majority neighborhoods. I will find out how I can limit single-use items and do my best to limit the waste I generate.

COMPLETED 0
DAILY ACTIONS

Waste

Learn About & Practice Sustainable Fashion

I will learn about sustainable fashion and begin trying to practice it in my own life.

UNCOMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Food

Whole Food Lifestyle

I will enjoy 1 meal(s) each day free of processed foods.

COMPLETED 1
DAILY ACTION

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.

To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Reduce Animal Products
    Why do people in richer countries eat more meat than people in other places? How does eating more meat affect our planet and other people?

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    Courtney Lasserre 3/10/2021 5:38 PM
    People in richer countries may eat more meat because cattle feed (i.e. corn) is so heavily subsidized by the government, either through direct tax breaks or by providing grants for research and various other technological developments supported by the government. Meat affects the planet by adding more emissions to the air and using lots of water (cows add methane to the atmosphere and use the most water out of nearly any food animal), but I think the problem is really with the industrial agriculture system as a whole. I do not think meat production would be so widespread if were not for the meteoric rise of corn supported by the government.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food Whole Food Lifestyle
    Michael Pollan states that “it is better to pay the grocer (our edit: or the farmer!) than the doctor.” What are your thoughts on this assertion?

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    Courtney Lasserre 3/10/2021 5:31 PM
    I love the book that this quote is from; highly, highly recommend In Defense of Food. I do agree with the statement that it is better to pay the grocer than the doctor, but I do think it is sometimes difficult for low-income families to find healthy and affordable food options. This is a problem in the industrialized food system in that the cheapest foods are also the most processed. Each person can combat this by buying local to the extent that you can instead of giving money to the industrial food system.