Shopping For Thanksgiving

For this activity our group decided to go grocery shopping for Thanksgiving. We found that it can be very wasteful. We had a list of 12 items to buy including turkey, potatoes, pies, cranberries, veggies, bread, stuffing, decorations, paper plate, plastic cups, plastic utensils, alcohol all of these items come along with other packaging that had to be made somewhere else largely from some type of synthetic industrial plant because most are packaged in plastic even potatoes that could be sold singulare for thanksgiving it's cheaper to buy the 5 pound plastic bag. In addition to this at the checkout because we have so many items we choose to have them bagged again and we forgot our reusable bags so we are just using plastic bags that the grocery store has. Along with this we had to include the resources that are need to go to a grocery store including the resources going into your car and the resources going into the parking lot and the stores themselves including the trucks,
Even if you only needed to go grocery shopping you can impact someone on the other side of the world where the oil for you gasoline might come from. Almost everything we do in our society consumes precious resources, some out of necessity, for example we will have to consume water to grow food and we have to eat, but most is out of convenience. Everyone on this earth could grow there own food or they could not own a car or they could even remember to bring in the reusable grocery bags, all of this takes time out of our busy schedules but, all of these little things we do everyday add up to make a big impact of the earth. I found that in my own code of ethics everything I do grocery shopping aligns with this. I try and buy fresh produce but sometimes the prepackaged stuff is easier and I reuse the plastic grocery bags a trash can liners extending its life just enough before they end up in a landfill