50 Great Days Update

Update

More than half way through the 50 Great Days campaign and the World Wide UCC community is still going strong.  We have invested 104,871 hours into caring for the planet, planted 17,571 trees and written 15,072 advocacy letters. 

We all have to eat but consider for a moment what you are eating and where your food comes from.  Are your foods prepackaged, loaded with chemicals and pesticides?  Are they travelling from Mexico, Florida or even overseas to get to you?  Think about the difference on the environment and on your body that a locally picked apple has compared to a banana that comes from Mexico.  The apple is picked at the peak of freshness making it healthier

for you and travels at most 20 miles.  The banana is picked long before it is ripe so it can travel for about 4, 500 miles before you see it.  The banana doesn't get to ripen on the tree, has lost much of it’s nutritive value and has used about 300 gallons of fuel before it even arrives in the store.   

Consider ways you can reduce your food impact on the environment.

· Have one meatless day a week. 

· Shop at local farmer’s markets and eat food in season.

· Plant some vegetables either in the ground or in a container.

· Anything that comes prepackaged came out of a factory with the resulting pollution, energy use and waste products.

· Find foods as close to their natural state as possible.  Eat God made foods rather then man made foods. 

· Teach your children where their food comes from, milk from cows, eggs from chickens, fruit from trees and vegetables from the earth.