various embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and apparatus for tracking and reporting the environmental impact of food products . in an example embodiment , an apparatus comprises a hand - held device including a display and one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation . the hand - held device includes at least one processor to determine a machine - readable identification code from the product identification indicia ; send the identification code to at least one remote server ; receive , from the at least one remote server , information that is associated with the product , the information including environmental impact information that is associated with the production of the food product ; and display at least some of the received environmental impact information on the display in human readable form .