Statement of Intent

The next 3 weeks will be quite the experience for me. Inspired by Colin Beavan's "No Impact Man" project and as a part of an environmental studies course summative,  I will be going from having fast food 2-3 times a day to no fast food at all for 3 WEEKS! Now you may ask, why did I chose to do this and how does this help the environment? Bell rings, class is done, what does that mean? Time to go out for lunch! This tends to be a daily routine since the beginning of grade 12, as a majority of my friends have received there license (since i haven't). The usual choices for places to eat are usually McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, and sometimes if we're in the mood of eating "healthy food" we go to Tim Hortons or Subway. Although recently I have been getting compliments on my "beer belly", so this is one reason I chose to not eat fast food for my No Impact Man project. However the other (main) reason as to why I chose this idea was due to that fact that there are multiple hazards to the environment just by eating fast food, such as tremendous energy intensity to create the food, high amount of packaging waste in the wrappers, bags, containers etc., and CO2 emissions from drive-thrus. So what I will be doing for the next 3 weeks rather than eating fast is, I'll be packing my own lunches, that are packed in a container and will not include any plastic, wrappers, or any other disposable materials. Although I know this won't be an easy task to follow, I will try my best to not eat any fast food, and will be sure to tell my friends to help me throughout the next deadly 3 weeks.