Reflection

I was inspired to make this cookbook because I wanted to help other people to eat a vegan diet that is healthy for them while also helping to curb climate change and helping them to stick to a budget when things are so expensive these days. I have always really liked art and I usually prefer painting and drawing over digital art, but I chose to make this book digitally that way I could share it with more people than I would be able to with a physical book. Making this project was a really fun experience for me, but it was also challenging to find enough recipes to fill my book. I feel that recently I have seen more and more vegan food in stores and I feel that this shows hope for the future that a vegan diet, which is better for the Earth, will become more common. My message to the viewers of my work is that they should eat vegan food at least a few times a week because it helps our planet while also helping them to be healthier and save money. The first thing that I learned while doing research is how bad eating meat is for our planet. As I mentioned in my book's introduction, 60 kilograms of greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere for every kilogram of beef that is produced. The biggest thing I learned though is that how food is transported is not the major source of the greenhouse gases it produces, the biggest source is how it is produced. Only 10% of greenhouse gas emissions of a certain food come from how it is shipped. Land use, fertilizers, and farming processes create the majority of greenhouse gas emissions for food.