why eating local isn't always eco friendly

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Is having a local diet better for the planet? In this video, Melissa explores the nuances of eating imported vs locally grown food for people trying to be more environmentally conscious of their food choices.
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CREDITS
Produced by Melissa Fernandes
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 melissa has another existential crisis
01:16 call me johnny harris
02:00 eating cereal 'cause i'm an adult
03:34 never too early for another existential crisis
03:50 why local is misleading
05:53 i failed, hope sabrina doesn't disown me now
06:57 let's get this ethical bread
08:06 melissa tries to be inspiration
09:03 paying the bills
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@answerinprogress 3 жыл бұрын

Heyo hope you liked this video! What other topics in food and sustainability would you like to see us break down? It can become a future video! *Reply down below for the algorithm* :D - Melissa

@electrichris8177 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe something about packaging?

@marcus_priavinga1251 3 жыл бұрын

why does caviar cost so much ? i would like video on that

@Zinii 3 жыл бұрын

You should do an episode on the clothing industry :D

@stonks8478 3 жыл бұрын

@@marcus_priavinga1251 The caviar fish is endangered

@donuthog 3 жыл бұрын

@@Zinii Yeah, i would especially love that, as I saw an episode of patriot act about that on Netflix a while ago, and some of the stuff that was said was astonishing.

@ArtichokeHunter 3 жыл бұрын

In my area, "eat local" is usually used to promote supporting small local businesses over megacorporations. I'm not used to it as an environmental argument, but it is very cool to break down how small a role transportation plays in that!

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

That, and to promote knowing more about what you’re buying. The process is much more transparent to someone who is in the same area as the producer than it is to someone on the other side of the world.

@eshhhhhh_07 3 жыл бұрын

Ya, i agree with you cuz that's what on my side

@ArtichokeHunter 3 жыл бұрын

@@ragnkja Yes! You're more likely to know what labor laws apply, what reputation the company has, concerns, etc. if the company is in your area. And with something like a farmer's market you can ask questions directly.

@DeathnoteBB 3 жыл бұрын

Uber Eats is using it to promote themselves

@chicken_punk_pie 3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@TheRoadrunner76 3 жыл бұрын

The best parts of this channel are the videos that could all be categorized as "relatable young adults try to learn how to be better humans" and I absolutely love it

@jorgerangel2390 3 жыл бұрын

I do feel that

@joehemmann1156 2 жыл бұрын

My crotchety boomer energy wants to refute this by saying "young adults = children", but I really can't you're just actually correct.

@santosmurilo Жыл бұрын

Same here! o/

@hussainbharmal6383 3 жыл бұрын

Every AIP video: "I guess I failed but here's what I learnt"

@ThePrimevalVoid 3 жыл бұрын

This is the goal I believe, we’ve been taught that failure is bad generally.

@user-nb7gp4fk7j 3 жыл бұрын

Haha, so true! 😅

@werosification 3 жыл бұрын

the best kind of learning 😅

@isalesme015 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the honesty

@vidblogger12 3 жыл бұрын

To quote that one Twitter user roasting Sabrina: “Half your videos end in failure and a sponsorship.”

@hippyyy5457 3 жыл бұрын

I think you forgot to mention the most important thing: by food when it is in season!

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, it’s rather of unnatural to eat the same stuff year-round. And remember: _every_ fresh food has a season. Yes, even meat, which is generally not in season in the northern hemisphere right now. In the winter, livestock has to be fed processed feed, whereas in the summer they can be left to graze, so it makes a lot more sense to slaughter them in the autumn.

@yewchoob6575 3 жыл бұрын

@@ragnkja don’t be silly even if they slaughtered them in the summer they have been eating processed foods for many years. It doesn’t make a difference what they had for brekkie

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

@@yewchoob6575 Not what they had for brekkie, no, but more what they have been eating for the past several months. Livestock that’s been fed processed feed all their lives should be classed as “slaughtered in the spring” with regards to their environmental impact no matter what time of the year it is, don’t you agree? Because they’ve basically been fed winter feed even in the summer.

@carrotman 3 жыл бұрын

Is that not to minimise transportation from different climates? Because there was a graph at 3:56 in this video that shows this is not the most important thing.

@penelope563 3 жыл бұрын

Besides cost savings it tastes so much better!

@finnaginfrost6297 3 жыл бұрын

I've literally never seen a YT video where they end up supporting the null hypothesis when it forces them to change the narrative structure of the video, except this one. Very impressed, excellent work and diligence.

@stardustfactory8311 3 жыл бұрын

What

@anthonynorman7545 3 жыл бұрын

This channel does it a lot

@garethbaus5471 3 жыл бұрын

@@stardustfactory8311 They didn't come to the conclusion that eating local is significantly better for the environment, despite appearing to have done a lot of research trying to show exactly that. Many people don't like doing reasurch or testing something to find that it doesn't make a significant difference one way or the other.

@atalayalunas 3 жыл бұрын

when i see melisa i just think of olive milk

@pvic6959 3 жыл бұрын

I bet she _loves_ thats her legacy LOLOL

@IsabellaBurmester 3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@zayneytem 3 жыл бұрын

It was unfit for human consumption-

@jakipop3397 3 жыл бұрын

She deserves better, man...

@Matty002 3 жыл бұрын

olive milk? you mean olive oil? lol

@catman6089 3 жыл бұрын

What I find interesting is that a restaurant could advertise either "beef from cattle grown down the road" and "beef from cattle imported from Japan" and get the same effect. an item being either locally produced or specially imported gives the same amount of "fanciness"

@aqua4089 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, if it’s local then it’s very fresh and helps the zone while if it’s imported then it means it’s good enough to be imported, something special.

@mienaikoe 3 жыл бұрын

I think Japan and a few select European countries are the only places that can claim a fancy title like that. And small farms for the local side. Beef from an industrial farm down the road or beef from China doesn’t sound fancy at all.

@Mystro256 3 жыл бұрын

The huge impact from beef comes from the production itself, not the transportation. In fact, beef is one of the worst environmentally impacting foods there is.

@maple22moose44 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mystro256 yeah, the fact that is a driving reason for deforestation, particularly of the Amazon, doesn’t help either

@lazergurka-smerlin6561 3 жыл бұрын

@@mienaikoe Basically the countries that are most fashionable

@Rachel-sw2pw 3 жыл бұрын

I love when you brought up the “are you going to eat it?” aspect! I had never thought about how when I let food go to waste I’m not just throwing out that food- I’m also making all of the processes behind getting that food to me go to waste

@Zalera44 3 жыл бұрын

You aren't the only person who had food produced for them at that time. Hundreds of people's food got produced at the exact same time as yours. You don't make that much of an impact, so don't beat yourself up too much :3

@fravs22 3 жыл бұрын

@@Zalera44 I agree! As we saw from the video, the largest environmental impact is caused by the farming methods, which are completly out of our control as consumers. The only thing we could do would be pressure our legislators to enforce better practices in the agriculture

@rachellindholm 3 жыл бұрын

@@fravs22 That's definitely not the only thing we can do. Individual impacts all add up. According to Project Drawdown, reducing food waste is one of the biggest things we can do to reduce GHG emissions and help the environment. It is incredibly important.

@pvic6959 3 жыл бұрын

yup. my mom taught me as much as a kid and now I never waste food. the only time ill throw it out is if it rots.. bad. Even then, into the compost it goes. When I was a kid, I didnt want to waste my moms efforts (shed wake up at 5am to make food before I went to school) and now that extends to everyone in the food making process. A farmer somewhere did back breaking work. I dont want his/her work go to waste

@lonestarr1490 3 жыл бұрын

About one third of all the food produced for the western world is never eaten. There's definitely room for improvement in that regard.

@screwaccountnames 3 жыл бұрын

That coconut milk at 3:00 is the exact same brand I used in my curry last week! I live in Austria. Globalization is weird.

@ninamarie177 3 жыл бұрын

Me too, I guess growing coconuts in Austria, Canada or Germany (where I live) is nearly impossible.

@Bri_Merriman 3 жыл бұрын

As an Australian on the other side of the world, that’s my coconut milk of choice as well!

@ennemuk 3 жыл бұрын

I buy that one too in the Netherlands!

@beakj 3 жыл бұрын

It’s sometimes in my pantry in Norway too! Haha.

@maryvasilyeva6064 3 жыл бұрын

It's also sold in Russia))

@dominictemple 3 жыл бұрын

Hah, this reminds me a bit of the scene from The Good Place where the Judge goes down to Earth to show how simple the system is, it does not go to plan. The world is a complex and multifaceted place

@valeriopepe1269 3 жыл бұрын

"Let's get this ethical bread" I died

@amaja694 3 жыл бұрын

i love that these videos are always a progression and demonstrate that you're allowed to change your argument through learning new info! also they're so well produced the graphics omg

@daniel.t.h. 3 жыл бұрын

There is a paper about this topic called "Avoiding the local trap" by Born and Purcell. I too was shocked at first to discover that local food isn't necessarily better for the environment than imported food.

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

_What_ you eat and maybe also _when_ you eat it usually matters more than _where_ you eat it. Obviously, dry staples such as grains are unlikely to be very seasonal, but fresh foods always have a season when it makes most sense to eat them. Did you know that goose was traditionally eaten after the hay harvest or the grain harvest, and that having goose for Christmas was really extravagant?

@de-void1872 3 жыл бұрын

Also local food usually means that the land could be used for other things. Places that have cows in my countries could not grow crops but locally you could put houses there

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

@@de-void1872 Similarly, it isn’t considered worthwhile to try to grow grains in northern Norway because you rarely manage to grow something that’s suitable for leavened bread, so we’ve been buying that from further south for many centuries.

@de-void1872 3 жыл бұрын

@@ragnkja exaclty. In Australia the soil is so dry in some places that planting food just wouldn't work. We have alto of cattle farming because they don't need moist soil

@jasonreed7522 11 ай бұрын

There are other reasons to buy local beyond the assumed environmentally benefits, mainly to support your local area/community over corporations.

@marcus_priavinga1251 3 жыл бұрын

I just found this a year ago . And I can say for sure this channel is hidden gem and needs to supported so everyone who likes their videos go hit and subscribe . we can do this

@elbowsbuns1896 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@Shorty24136 3 жыл бұрын

For me buying local is a social decision rather than environmental... I would rather support a local farmer than a chain. Further than that I grow some of my own fruit and vegetables and my husband and I are beginning to hunt to not only reduce pest animals here in Australia but also reduce our footprint and use everything an animal can provide. Hopefully in the future we will be able raise our own meat too.

@marieblackbird89 3 жыл бұрын

I admire you for growing some of your own fruit and vegetables, takes aalot of work. What "pests" non-human animals do you hunt? Are you going to raise "pests" non human animals?

@leoyamauchi5992 3 жыл бұрын

@@marieblackbird89 fun fact: pest animals can mean rabbits (in Australia) or other kinds of animals that are considered invasive due to them being introduced into the environment by humans centuries

@firstname405 2 жыл бұрын

@@marieblackbird89 some native animals are now considered to have pest-level population sizes because they are no longer being sustainably hunted after white people invaded. For example, kangaroo! Fortunately, it's sold at supermarkets now, tastes delicious and is cheaper than beef!

@Mystro256 3 жыл бұрын

Best way to reduce your environmental impact from food is to give up or reduce beef intake... It's right in the video at 3:51.

@hobbiefox-pastrycat4568 2 жыл бұрын

Really any meat (although beef is the worst offender)

@delightedmatt 3 жыл бұрын

Super interesting to see that Greenhouse Gas chart showing that Emmissions care less about WHERE the food comes from, but about WHAT you eat. Substitute beef, dairy, lamb and chocolate in your diet? That chart looks fondly upon you.

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

Chocolate isn’t exactly something you should eat loads of anyway.

@Mystro256 3 жыл бұрын

I laughed when I saw the beef bar go off screen... Yep, exactly why I don't eat beef.

@Draconicdisciple 3 жыл бұрын

Although, even if comparatively its small that doesn't meant shaving even just a little bit of emissions off isn't good. If possible you should still stick to having foods from closer to you and eat in season.

@kirkwhite3399 3 жыл бұрын

The absolute cowardice of this video, which ends with a hello fresh advert... FFS

@Opinerful 3 жыл бұрын

Despite beef producing a lot of CO2 (and mostly methane), that CO2 came from the plants that the cow ate, which was captured from the atmosphere, completing the carbon cycle, whereas the emissions from machining, packaging and transportation come from fossil fuels which is a form of CO2 that shouldn't be emitted in "normal" conditions since it is outside of the regular cycle.

@alinedangelo9563 3 жыл бұрын

You forgot to talk about the most important part of having a more sustainable diet: look at that graph you showed and avoid the foods at the top. Meats especially always have a much larger footprint than other foods, whether local or not. Their production is just too resource-intensive to be sustainable at the amount that most people consume them.

@graymayhem2410 3 жыл бұрын

@hinatahyuuga120 3 жыл бұрын

My only problem with that sentiment is there are people who can nto eat a very plant based diet. There are people who are allergic to wheat, corn and soy. All of which are heavily in the vegan and vegetarian diets. And some people bodies in studies have sjow to not be able to handle the full switch over and they grow extremely ill.

@clothcat3071 3 жыл бұрын

@@hinatahyuuga120 I'm a meat eater and agree with Alines statement, especially the "at the amount most people consume them" part. The drive to intensively farm for meat is the root of the high carbon footprint.

@rosaliestewart7355 3 жыл бұрын

@@hinatahyuuga120 and there are people who can't do various other things for the environment so what's your point? we shouldn't try to eat less meat because some people can't go vegan?

@sweetpeabee4983 3 жыл бұрын

@@rosaliestewart7355 I think their point is that when people say "we should avoid meat", putting it in the frame of "we" isn't very inclusive of people who genuinely want to cut meat but can't for various reasons. It can come across as shaming people, even when that isn't the intention. To be clear, I agree that "we" should try to avoid consuming meat, dairy, etc. I just find that often, when people post "but sometimes people can't stop eating meat for xyz health reason," it's because they want to justify why they're not a bad person and do care, really, and they want to be validated in that. Which isn't really a point, when it comes down to it, just insecurity. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@una_10bananas 3 жыл бұрын

Can I just say I love the chalk sound effect when you underlined words

@MisterAppleEsq 3 жыл бұрын

Hey you!

@una_10bananas 3 жыл бұрын

@@MisterAppleEsq oh hi there!

@diegodoumecq5144 3 жыл бұрын

Might want to investigate commercial fishing, especially trawling and long line fishing. With some quick googling it appears that 40% of marine catch is bycatch, which amounts to 63 billion pounds of _the wrong fish_

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

Until quite recently, by-catch was always used, whether as human food or as bait.

@hooberfloobermoober 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, I just wanna say thank you guys so much for captioning your videos, it’s really useful. I myself am not deaf or hard of hearing, but it’s useful if I don’t have headphones, or I’m in a noisy area. I feel like captions often get overlooked, so again, thank you.

@mary-dt2eb 3 жыл бұрын

i love the video, but i feel its important to talk about how the responsibility we have to the environment shouldn't be put solely on the consumer. making ethical decisions is important, but pressuring megacorporations to do better is way more important because not every consumer has the ability, time or money to make those ethical choices. Just asking people to make better decisions without acknowledging the fact that laws and companies changing would have a greater impact just feeds into this sense of guilt you're feeling.

@crimeny 3 жыл бұрын

@skatermcgee3220 3 жыл бұрын

The most ironic sponsorship ever

@EmotionsNeverLie 3 жыл бұрын

"If you don't know, don't be afraid to ask." I guarantee you the workers at the grocery store know just as much as you do when it comes to knowing where their foods come from.

@corsipong 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a bit surprised: The starts by tackling the problem under the carbon footprint perspective, at 4 minutes it shows that eating local could only reduce the footprint by 6%, and then switches it's angle to talk about pesticides. The elephant in the room we get from the graph at 4 minutes is that reduicing meat and dairy is the way to go to reduce the carbon footprint, but this is not even mentioned. Does it conflicts with HelloFresh selling meat and dairy?

@crimeny 3 жыл бұрын

@Vamusika 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It's just glossed over. Not to mention a ton of mono crops are grown in the first place for animal feed and the amount of water used for that!

@jacksgapy 3 жыл бұрын

I got confused myself about the overarching message

@jorgea5426 3 жыл бұрын

@graymayhem2410 3 жыл бұрын

@joshuab4586 3 жыл бұрын

The whole “eat local” movement reminds me of companies blaming consumers for plastic pollution when in reality it’s big companies like Nestle that pollute more than billions of consumers. It’d make more sense to me if they promoted the money going back into the immediate economy when buying local. No idea if that’s even a necessary thing tbh, just see it plastered everywhere.

@piemonkey5ponypuppy 3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the eat local movement, from my experience at least, IS about directly supporting the farmers and small businesses in our communities. I'm surprised that this part of it was completely glossed over in the video.

@emilyblack7342 3 жыл бұрын

Another factor to add to the local food equation: security. Depending on who you ask, I live on either the most isolated island chain in the world or one that’s pretty high up there. That means that if we want to eat a western diet, we need to import basically everything. The usual estimates say that if imports stop, we have a week and a half before the food runs out. When we talked about eating local in school, that’s what the conversation was really about: building more the runway before crisis hits. When it comes to eating local, I’d suggest you consider that too. If all transport stopped, how long would your home have before the food runs out?

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

The crops - usually some kind of grains - that are staples in most of the world tend to be less central in the base diet on small islands and other places with very limited arable land and/or unfavourable growing conditions, such as cold or arid climates. Instead I expect the traditional diet where you’re from to have been heavy on seafood, just like where I’m from in northern Norway.

@emilyblack7342 3 жыл бұрын

@@ragnkja Not quite. The traditional staple crop was taro, supplemented with sweet potato and breadfruit. Taro was important enough that a good chunk of the local creation myth was built around it. However, taro is an acquired taste (to put it politely) and almost all of the farmland has been built over with suburbs.

@adsapphirewind6131 3 жыл бұрын

Lets go get a map *SHOWS JOHN HARRIS* lmao that broke me

@jj53368 3 жыл бұрын

Immediately subscribed 😆

@EcceJack 3 жыл бұрын

(can... someone tell me who John Harris is? xD because I did *not* get that part)

@connormcgee4711 3 жыл бұрын

@@EcceJack His channel is Johnny Harris, and he makes videos pretty similar to these ones (in production), but he focused a lot on geopolitical issues, hence making tons of animated maps for his videos

@astererratum6546 3 жыл бұрын

I was more concerned about the price. Lol. Never seen a $100 map before.

@EcceJack 3 жыл бұрын

@@astererratum6546 Same! :D

@oliversdouglas 3 жыл бұрын

The single most environmentally impactful thing you can do in respect to your diet is cut out meat & dairy - something very briefly highlighted by the graph at 3:53. Others have commented about it too and it did feel like an omission - especially since even if you don't want to be vegan (I'm not) just *reducing* the amount of meat & dairy you consume is still going to reduce your carbon footprint massively. Otherwise, great video as always folks - I'd just liked to have seen some more reference to an important part of this discussion :)

@sparksbet 3 жыл бұрын

I don't begrudge her for not including it, but yeah, it's a shame she didn't mention it. She could've integrated it into the ad read too -- I recently started a Hello Fresh membership, and even though I get some meals with meat and fish, they have a lot of appealing vegetarian and vegan options as well, which has encouraged me to eat fewer meat-based meals even though I don't plan on becoming a vegan or vegetarian. It's a missed opportunity, but nice to discuss in the comments.

@jakeA0903 2 жыл бұрын

So true!!

@shibebaka2809 3 жыл бұрын

Always happy to see a video from you, glad I'm this early

@stanorange 3 жыл бұрын

That lil Johnny Harris pop up is everything.

@the12thstar55 3 жыл бұрын

agreed.

@sophieward7225 3 жыл бұрын

I'm regularly astounded by the animation on this channel! It's so minimal and effective and is clearly planned out with great care. Love you guys!

@Z3R090210 3 жыл бұрын

Listing where something was produced makes it sound so much more fancy lol

@gosiahasal182 3 жыл бұрын

I thought that was required by law? In my grocery stores even produce that isn't packaged always has country of import listed next to the price

@maple22moose44 3 жыл бұрын

@@gosiahasal182 interesting, by any chance would you be okay saying where, I’d like to find out more,

@563spaceman 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that's standard here too, in Serbia

@gosiahasal182 3 жыл бұрын

@@maple22moose44 i live in Poland, it might be an European Union thing

@skycaptain39 3 жыл бұрын

"I should really put a big red pin or something where I am" *puts a blue pin Bruh

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

“Or something” seems right. At least it’s bigger than the other pins.

@user-qh2xz2bf1l 3 жыл бұрын

She probably just didn't have a red pin

@YOEL_44 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-qh2xz2bf1l Yo yo yo, don't point us with that gun, I'm sure it was just an observation, chill bro

@user-qh2xz2bf1l 3 жыл бұрын

@@YOEL_44 haha

@seanamisano6216 3 жыл бұрын

hmm strange how the topic of animal farming wasn’t mentioned at all in this video

@alex6027 3 жыл бұрын

Yea, it seemed a bit odd

@kirkwhite3399 3 жыл бұрын

Probably didn't wanna piss off their sponsor

@pyRoy6 3 жыл бұрын

The weirdest part was that they put up the damn chart, which clearly shows that the typical consumer will make a HUGE difference by omitting animal products. Doesn't take much thought, strategy, calculations...but has the effect of coming pretty close to an optimal solution.

@nuloom 3 жыл бұрын

@@pyRoy6 and it’s way better than searching for ways to cut off single %’s of your food emissions with a magnifying glass. Seriously either it’s the sponsor or it’s the prioritising of temporary pleasure over planet, own health (cardiovascular diseases go brr), and personal ethics.

@pyRoy6 3 жыл бұрын

@@nuloom You're right. Promoting (or, at least, mentioning) plant-based eating seems particularly suitable for this channel's audience for that very reason. It gets the job done, and it's simple enough for most people to do without having to do a lot of thinking every day. There were some hilarious, pizzagate-level accusations about Sabrina... but I think you're probably closer to the truth. Putting the chart in might have been their way of pushing back against the sponsor.

@Q269 3 жыл бұрын

Individual efforts is necessary in the long run, but won't hold a candle to corporate regulations; so if you want to fight, then fight for the cause.

@ymi_yugy3133 3 жыл бұрын

That looks overwhelming and expensive. I think forgoing beef will be good enough for now.

@eldarr0uge482 3 жыл бұрын

Wow that looks like a LOT of plastic packaging with hello fresh, that's kinda weird to put it as an eco friendly service/product to buy.

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

How much does the argument that “pre-portioned ingredients cause less waste” rely on the amounts being right for you? Because if I make 1.3 times as much as I need, it doesn’t really matter if everything is proportioned correctly, it’s still too much food. Sure, I could eat it later, but those awkward tiny leftovers that aren’t enough to be even a small lunch are the ones that are most likely to be thrown out.

@lisas9937 Жыл бұрын

I'm with you. I tried Hello Fresh for a while. But, as a single person, being forced to order a minimum of 3 meals for 2 people resulted in a LOT of food waste. Each bag would essentially make 3 meals for me because the portions were so big. So, by the time I got to the 3rd bag, the produce and bread had gone bad. I had to throw it out, get into my car and drive to the grocery store for replacements. Besides, my boxes came via UPS and Hello Fresh didn't actually indicate where most of the ingredients came from.

@logically-pastel1795 3 жыл бұрын

I'm disappointed that you showed a graph that shows how much meat production affects the environment, but didn't talk about it at all. It's much cheaper to reduce meat consumption than to buy all organic.

@crimeny 3 жыл бұрын

@graymayhem2410 3 жыл бұрын

@Charlotte-jm3ce 2 жыл бұрын

The point of the video was transportation.

@Kevindude8868 3 жыл бұрын

Wtf how do you not have at least 1 mil subs, your content is so professional and well done it blows my mind that i didn't hear of you sooner! Keep up with the great work!! :DD

@ArtichokeHunter 3 жыл бұрын

I love foraging. I don't think it's reasonable to eat exclusively as local as personally picking it in the park, but it's so much fun and I feel much more in touch with what I'm eating not only in terms of environmental impact but like... what part of the plant is it, how it needs to be treated and prepared for use, and what it offers me that commercial crops don't. #eatyourinvasives

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

Anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that locals in my village have managed to eradicate caraway (which is blacklisted here in Norway) from the village by collecting the seeds for their own use. I doubt it’s going to be as easy to get rid of goutweed, but at least I don’t feel guilty about picking all the newest and tastiest shoots every so often each spring and early summer. If I “accidentally” pick so much that it no longer thrives in the garden, there’s probably someone nearby who will let me harvest in theirs, right?

@ajuanjojj 3 жыл бұрын

Having a "save the enviroment video" while being sponsored by a service that packs 5 single use plastic bags/containers for each meal kind of defeats the purpose :/

@memali2939 2 жыл бұрын

Except...it doesn't

@WinWolfGaming 3 жыл бұрын

I have been bingging your videos all day I'm excited for this, always well edited

@ennemuk 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who's studied environmental impacts, I cackled a bit when you said tracking where all your food was from would be easy 😂 they don't make it easy for us huh.

@okaysonal 3 жыл бұрын

The animations and narration to them on this particular video were beautiful!

@pooghopink3572 3 жыл бұрын

This video has a LOT more information than what other creators do and there's a lot of though behind the video

@DancingSpacePotato 3 жыл бұрын

Because you asked nicely I’ll stick around for the ad read

@random23287 3 жыл бұрын

Why is this unlisted? []

@answerinprogress 3 жыл бұрын

👁👄👁

@EnderElectrics 3 жыл бұрын

Not anymore!

@eshhhhhh_07 3 жыл бұрын

how you commented 15 hours agooooooooooooooo

@random23287 3 жыл бұрын

@@eshhhhhh_07 I was watching the food playlist and they put it on there ahead of time

@eshhhhhh_07 3 жыл бұрын

@@random23287 🤯😱😳😨😵😲howww, Actually the case was my pc was hanging so i thought that KZfaq has become unresponsive, so it's showing me wrong time. Thanks for the clarification 😅😂😂🤣🤣💁🤭💜

@anotherrandomperson9174 Жыл бұрын

This was super validating and interesting! Thank you so much for taking us with you ^-^

@weirdral 3 жыл бұрын

This video was just gorgeous to watch. This is so well done. I love the topic and everything, but the graphics are just amazing.

@MyHappyDonuts 3 жыл бұрын

I really liked the video, but if you think about it, you kinda made a video about the environmental impact of food transportation, sponsored by a company that... actually transports food, which may seem like your point is biased!

@pianoforte611 3 жыл бұрын

Intuitively, if shipping only adds a few cents to the cost of a good, then it probably doesn't add that much to CO2 emission or resource consumption. But its nice to have a quantitative analysis. But I still buy local when I can because local produce tastes better. Fresh strawberries are completely different from strawberries picked unripe and shipped across the world.

@jovankarabatic3760 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad i bumped into this channel. Been watching your videos for the past 2 hours

@sophiabrown9748 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVED THIS ONE A LOT, thank you for the clear steps I can take to eat/buy food in a more environmentally conscious way!

@marcyslu6523 3 жыл бұрын

Hey where are your references? My team is working on a similar project in Iceland and I would love to look at any of the articles/data you used

@dementiasorrow 3 жыл бұрын

It's Morning in Brazil and your video is the first thing I watched and it's the best! I think that we have to work hard to exercise the power of choice as a consumer. It shouldn't be that hard but it's the way it is now.

@eshhhhhh_07 3 жыл бұрын

But it night 🌃 herein 🇮🇳India Stay safe and sound, buddy 👐☮💁💜

@asclepia088 3 жыл бұрын

I first started watching your channel after the vaping video (or maybe SAT?) and am so amazed at the channel’s growth as well as the quality of videos (not to say they were bad before). This video looks amazing, the editing style, music, and visuals just exhume a modern day style and I can’t even wrap my head around the work it takes to produce even a single video. I hope you guys aren’t working yourselves to the bone to produce these, because this is one of my go to channels for TIL sorts of stuff. I also like the new channel name. With the previous two, they felt like they like put a lot of emphasis on you (Sabrina) which worked when you were the only one in the videos, but with the new style I completely agree with the name change. Sorry for rambling on, something about this video really woke me up to all of the work you guys have been putting into the channel.

@pietracassolrigatti 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this video! Great discussion. It also shows that it takes more effort from ourselves to make sure we're not causing more damage to the environment when we choose to buy local or not-local. We could even ask big and small producers to make those information freely available and easy to find. This way they end up being more transparent about their production and we practice paying attention to what we buy.

@dariailie8941 3 жыл бұрын

Holy heck I am so ridiculously early. Love your channel!

@pia6919 3 жыл бұрын

I love how she completely glosses over animal agriculture, even tho she mentioned it in the video, while also promoting something that doesn't cater to vegans.

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

What about other dietary restrictions, such as allergies and intolerances? Because that’s also something I don’t dare to take for granted.

@pia6919 3 жыл бұрын

@@ragnkja i don't think i get your question. Are you asking how people with allergies can go vegan?

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

@@pia6919 No, I’m asking if they (Hello Fresh) assume that people have no dietary restrictions. Because you and I both know that that isn’t the case.

@derekw104 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Fresh has vegan meal options though?? Unless I'm just living in an alternate reality, who knows

@pia6919 3 жыл бұрын

@@derekw104 for all I know they only have a vegetarian option

@SolarSeaSlug 3 жыл бұрын

I love you guys' videos. Teaching the internet ten to twenty minutes at a time that learning is more important than success :)

@user-ry3oj3re1n 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this quality video! From stats, illustration, the methodology ❤️ keep on inspiring and educating us

@user-ry3oj3re1n 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations to all the team behind this

@pufflemaster348 3 жыл бұрын

I love the detail at 1:36 of the “map of shame” text being motion tracked onto the map. Great video!

@TheLeafiniwa 3 жыл бұрын

I guess one argument for local food is that you are more familiar with the regulations farmers need to follow

@Charlotte-jm3ce 2 жыл бұрын

It usually tastes better too because it is fresher))

@Trisha-zi2er 3 жыл бұрын

These videos just keep on getting better

@ScutoidStudios 3 жыл бұрын

Yay! I'm so happy for you to have made this one!

@peyton9382 3 жыл бұрын

This video was super cool, but I think y'all fell into the corporate trap that we, as individual consumers, are responsible for the environmental impact of our products. Corporations produce more than 70% of the global emissions! So just don't feel too guilty or bad about yourself if you can't afford/ don't have the time to choose the sustainable options, we need to be holding politicians and corporations responsible for their harmful actions

@oliverwilson11 3 жыл бұрын

True, but people should be aware that the result of holding those politicians and corporations responsible is going to be a world in which people who currently eat a lot of environmentally harmful foods (like beef) will end up eating a lot less of them.

@cameronhaines8828 Жыл бұрын

Corporations produce 70% of global emissions true... but ultimately it is people who consume what these corporations produce, and that's why they produce. Production and consumption are really two sides of the same coin.

@user-nb7gp4fk7j 3 жыл бұрын

You made me want to do the same research for my region! 😅

@bang_rik 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Very informative plus the style is as amazing as always.

@churlissh_7680 3 жыл бұрын

You and Sabrina are so adorable, thank you for always producing great content

@marinak1311 3 жыл бұрын

Great video -- super informative and thought-provoking! Buuuuut can't believe you didn't even mention animal agriculture, when it was literally the elephant in the room (in the video)

@teodorapetkovic 3 жыл бұрын

Eating pineapple from God knows where with this video proved to be a fun combination! Also, I have never bought a map either? Where do people by maps???

@mariarutz9842 3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your videos! Always learn something! They are fun, informative, and clever!

@haritskamaaluddin5334 2 жыл бұрын

You know what’s really cool from this channel? Even Their sponsored video also bring me joy not only about how they tell the product, but the product is cool as well 🤟, like this Hello fresh things, I love what they did. Keep it up guys!

@prodanalexandru219 3 жыл бұрын

3:55 well looking at graph the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is by going vegan, but i guess that's too much sacrifice for the planet.

@graymayhem2410 3 жыл бұрын

@prodanalexandru219 3 жыл бұрын

@Caitlyn McMunn i'm just pointing out the hypocrisy, if you feel ashamed maybe you should reconsider your lifestyle choices.

@seanc6128 3 жыл бұрын

A consumer can only choose from the options available. Just to maybe relieve some of the guilt.

@rmeaso 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making such great videos that normalize "failing" and for consistently captioning them!

@randomtinypotatocried 3 жыл бұрын

I really love the direction this channel has gone in

@dunnejos8423 3 жыл бұрын

Or.... You could recognize the vast majority of pollution, environmental damage and petroleum accidents are perpetrated by megacorporations who have no monetary incentive to reduce their impact. It's great to do what you can to reduce your waste production, buying local etc, but I the reality is that these corporations are probably producing 100 times more waste and environmental impact than you could do in your lifetime.

@justrecentlyi5444 2 жыл бұрын

Buying products from companies that use practices that do less damage is an important part of creating that incentive for them to lessen their environmental impact. Legislation and voting for it is another important way, but even though the fault primarily lies with the corporations, we cannot sit back, do nothing, and expect them to change the practices that gave them their success.

@dunnejos8423 2 жыл бұрын

@@justrecentlyi5444 that's incredibly neo liberal rhetoric. There's no evidence at all that suggests supporting brands that are eco friendly even create a dent in the amount of harm done by megacorporations. The vast majority of waste isn't even done by regular citizens. Neither is the amount of water waste, industrial pollution etc. We can't get to a better environmental state through consumerism, that's absolutely absurd and honestly irresponsible. You know what will work? Legislative action, direct action, direct protest, etc. This is why the most affective climate groups recognize capitalism itself as a detriment to the environment.

@justrecentlyi5444 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not suggesting that it is even a major part of the solution, but it certainly can't hurt to "vote with your wallet" when it's within your means to do so.

@andersonneil2293 3 жыл бұрын

One counterpoint to "buy local" I've heard from freakanomics is that while there is more energy expenditure for transportation, more is saved by the product being produced in a place that is best for the product. Tbh, as a consumer your actions make almost no difference from an environmental effect. It's much better to find a group of folks and pressure your politicians to put in place more effective legislation.

@captainmaay 3 жыл бұрын

For the algorithm, and because I loved the video ! Great stuff !!

@kekz0r 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. You gave me so much to think about when buying food!

@midnightdarkchocolate 3 жыл бұрын

I know I’m slacking when I just realized she changed her Channel name

@l7dco 3 жыл бұрын

Same😭😭

@Tr4sh_can34 3 жыл бұрын

nerdy and quirky, Sabrina, Sabrina and friends and Answer in progress

@fhaiye02 3 жыл бұрын

The packaging of hello fresh uses a lot of plastic

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

Another concern I have about pre-packaged ingredients is that not everyone needs the same amount of food. For example, what’s barely enough for a man who does quite physically strenuous work is _way_ too much for me as a petite woman whose job isn’t exactly very physical.

@fhaiye02 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I agree with that.

@thetraumabutton61 7 ай бұрын

i love the names of the chapters melissa! 😭❤️

@SarfaraazAlladin 3 жыл бұрын

This is a great perspective to keep in mind! Thanks, this was a really interesting vid

@Mirabell97 3 жыл бұрын

...how did you not even mention animal agriculture?

@electrichris8177 3 жыл бұрын

yay vibeo

@anshjain3617 3 жыл бұрын

I like mallisa's quiet and chill attitude !

@varunchopra2285 3 жыл бұрын

2 mins in and already everything about your style is dope

@sofie742 3 жыл бұрын

Really loved the video - only critique is that I think it's maybe slightlyyyyyyy irresponsible to not discuss the disproportionate negative affect animal agriculture has on the environment & GHG emissions

@lulucool45 3 жыл бұрын

once again you illustrate the failure of trying to save the environment through individual consumer decisions

@Lewez98 3 жыл бұрын

One thing I'd like to note with regards to industrial farming and its impact on soils is that there are many techniques that can mitigate or minimize effects such as soil compaction and erosion, and the effects of monocultures on soil nutrient levels. These practices are put broadly under sustainable agriculture. They can include things such as strategic crop rotation to restore/maintain soil nutrient levels and soil stability, which can include rotating out certain crops in a season or shifting where they are on your land. And this hasn't been widely adopted to my knowledge, but there are different forms of and ways to deploy pesticides and herbicides that can have a lesser impact on non-target crops and water systems than traditional methods such as spraying. That's only scratching the surface, but granted many of these techniques definitely need to be more widespread. It's likely hard to find out whether or not producers are using these methods unless they're local and you go ask yourself, but knowing whether or not it was farmed using industrial practices isn't necessarily an indicator of its environmental impact, as there are ways to use industrial farming methods sustainably.

@s0dani 3 жыл бұрын

The production value of these videos is amazing… the graphics and photography are so good I thought I was watching a Vox video

@alix8503 3 жыл бұрын

I know no one ever wants to hear this, but the single biggest thing you can do to reduce your food's environmental impact is to eat plants instead of animal-based products. Any time you buy meat, eggs, dairy, etc. that animal had to eat every day for months before you get it on your plate. In factory farms, they're usually fed soy and corn, notably from the Amazon region. And a whopping 99% of animals raised for food in the United States (as an example, the stats are similar almost everywhere) are in factory farms. The impact of plant food vs animal food is not even comparable. If you want to lower your environmental footprint, please eat fewer (or ideally no) animals.

@hinatahyuuga120 3 жыл бұрын

But that brings in to questions affordability. A lot of the stuff that's bad over all for the environment is cheap to buy. So poor families like most of the US don't have the financial access to even think about eating vegetarian or vegan diets.

@oliverwilson11 3 жыл бұрын

@@hinatahyuuga120 The vast majority of people can afford to eat less meat and in particular less beef. Less meat is usually the cheaper option (though NO meat is sometimes more expensive). If you can't afford to eat less meat then you are not the problem, climate footprint is almost entirely a function of how much money you spend. The person you're responding to is NOT saying poor families need to spend more on food.

@pyRoy6 3 жыл бұрын

@@hinatahyuuga120 That's why I have to hustle so bad. I need to make $80k or else I can't afford my rice and beans.

@hinatahyuuga120 3 жыл бұрын

@@pyRoy6 what's worse is there are people out there who think that we can afford to eat cheaper then we already do. I get food exclusively from a food bank and still don't have spending money or saving money

@pyRoy6 3 жыл бұрын

@@hinatahyuuga120 Although your situation makes sense, the point is that plant-based food is generally the cheaper option, excluding specialty products. Animal products are made affordable through subsidies.

@ellaaurora 3 жыл бұрын

this was interesting, kinda confused though about how you can not even mention the impact of animal agriculture vs a plant-based food in a video about the sustainability of what we buy and eat. to my understanding that is the biggest factor in this issue and it feels misleading to not bring it up

@graymayhem2410 3 жыл бұрын

@Greenpunked 3 жыл бұрын

If you like plants and care how your food is grown, you can try growing something simple on your balcony like tomatoes. That makes an impact i would guess.