The Hidden Costs of a Turkey Club
Who knew one of America’s delicacy items, the Turkey Club, could have such an environmental impact? Some of the classic ingredients of the sandwich include turkey, bacon, and a special addition of ham. These products were bought at a local grocery store, ALDI. The bacon is produced from Aldi’s Appleton Farms which is sourced from pigs inside the U.S. Controversy struck recently that the bacon may be made from cells inside a lab. But who knows? The ham is an ALDI brand and is said to come from regional farms near the area. As for the turkey, I went with the Hillshire brand which is said to be produced with authentic turkey raised with no hormones. Bacon and ham productions are quite similar as they come from the same animal and possibly from the same farm. The production of one slice of bacon is also the production of manure, which ends up being 80 times the weight of the strip! On these industrial pig farms, manure is stored in large open-air spaces and then sprayed ...