What trends in eating habits have impacted our environment?

Answer 1

Modern eating habits have several impacts:

• The desire to have fresh fruits and vegetables year round has resulted in both the conversion of forests and farmland to monoculture of specific and limited crops. Some of these require excessive water, high levels of fertilizer and pesticides and displace the agricultural communities. Transporting these good by planes has a high carbon footprint.
  
• The desire of high levels of red meat such as beef requires overgrazing, the diversion of grains to beef production, and pesticide and hormone contamination of water ways. Mature disposal is a significant problem for all factory farmed meat.
• The desire for exotic foods such as almonds, chocolate, bananas, coffee and Orange Juice ;ads to monoculture farms, human slavery, non diverse genetic problems with crops, the news for pesticides, displacement of farmers, waste from over packaging and many other problems.