Supermarkets boast of them – rows upon rows of canned products from canned apples to canned zucchini paste. It seems that we have accepted store-bought canned goods as part of modern life without giving deeper thought to their effects on the environment and to our health. Well, now is a good time to secure information on their advantages and disadvantages!

If you put two apples next to each other and they look exactly the same, how can it be that picking one of them is better for the environment? Maybe because the apple on the left came from down the road and and the apple on the right came from half the country away.

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So you’re not in the mood to be healthy today and are indulging in cooking up some bacon or French fries or onion rings. And you’re not not baking or microwaving them. No, today you’re FRYING them. Well, that’s going to leave some reminders, and I’m not talking about calories.

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