Earth Day! ( Yayy)

As all of you know, last Thursday was Earth Day. In order to contribute to the mission of raising awareness, my group and I made a poster that represented the main ideas of our research papers. Our poster was entitled “The Consequences of your Choices” and had for main goal to make people realize that what they eat, drink and use has an impact on the environment. On our art creation, we put different pictures of how mass media portrays our food: a big hamburger as presented by fast food chains, fresh milk, a large field and ultimately, a healthy earth. Under each of our picture, we put the reality of the situation. Under our hamburger, we showed people how their meat actually looked liked: in an inhumane way. Under the fresh dairy product, we showed a dairy cow and how mistreated it looked. Under our healthy earth, we put the true consequences of our actions: a rapidly degrading earth. We hoped that people would stop being fooled by what mass media (who care only about money) portrays and get informed. We quickly realized that most people were totally unaware of what they eat and how it affects the planet.
Also, my friend Natasha and I contributed to earth day by walking around the school ground in a cardboard car. One of our goals was to complete a survey to determine how students got to school: public transport, car, walk, bike, carpool etc. Another one of our goals was to promote carpooling, which is an easy way to save our environment, one ride at a time.
One of the booths I found interesting was the one promoting the lifestyle of vegan’s. Indeed, I find it interesting because not many people are aware that it IS possible to live without relying solely on animal products. The booth offered vegan brownies (which contained NO animal products) to show that there is always a healthier and better way. Of course, I do not mean by that that everyone must become vegan, but that certain little changes in your lifestyle can make a difference. For example, I know drink a lot of almond milk, which contains no animal products, which in turn does not affect our earth.