Dangerous offsets

I went to "visit" this plant. Naturally, I wasted gasoline on a 75 mile motorcycle round trip to do it. I hoped to run into a janitor who might give me about 5 informational minutes. They have a contraption which lifts/tilts the entire truck to dump the potatoes out onto feeders/conveyors that take them into the plant. Would it be a safe assumption that, in Chicago, a semi load of potatoes converted into chips are consumed daily?
During chip production season, several trucks are dumped per day! Cooking oils are brought in by tanker trucks...on and on and on.

Beautiful facility.

So what IS the most environmentally sensitive manner to get spuds in your stomach? I'm sure its not french fries at McDonald's.

This is why Mother Earth screams. She gave us food-we created chaos for convenience.

The assault on environmental repair is "individual life style assessment" as well as legislative. The former is the hard pill to swallow and the most easy/immediate to do something about. Buy and eat smart! Good things will follow.

I am quoting from an area newspaper.
"Frito-Lay has been located in Beloit, Wisconsin for 36 years, growing from 200 employees to more than 500. The Beloit site manufactures more than 140 million pounds of snacks annually including Lay's potato chips, Fritos corn chips, Doritos flavored tortilla chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, Ruffles potato chips, and Tostitos tortilla chips. Snacks made in Beloit travel to seven states-Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Northern Michigan, and Illinois."
I am not knocking Frito-Lay, just amazed at the scale of convenience...Is there a better way to get your potato/snack chip high? Is there a more effective delivery system of food to your gut than moving 140 million pounds of raw material to a single location and then shipping it all out again?
Amazing...one factory.

A revenue neutral carbon tax that does not penalize consumers and gives quicker incentive to industries to cut emissions by moving to alternate energy sources is the way to go now and I won't waver from that stance. I wish some politicians would be as strong about it instead of just falling for cap and trade because they think it is all we can get. That frankly is not good enough now. I truly believe that if cap and trade is now pushed on the American people after the fights over healthcare the climate bill may well fail. I am very disappointed at this Congress's total lack of responsibility regarding the moral aspects of this bill.