What is caused by the food system?
What is the projected global population by 2050?
Over 10 billion people by 2050
True or False: Most fruit snacks have real fruit in them
What is a False
What is the food system?
All the people and activities involved in growing, distributing, selling, transporting, supplying, and eating food.
What does food distribution involve?
Moving food from one place to another using trucks, ships, or other means of transportation.
What factors impact the food system?
Economic, political, cultural, and societal drivers.
What are some examples of food processing?
Making flour from grains, cooking at home, and using machines in factories to prepare food.
What is industrial or 'conventional' agriculture?
How most food is grown on big farms in the U.S. and other western countries, using large machines, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides to grow food quickly and efficiently.
Who sells food?
Street vendors, farmers, supermarkets, and online sellers.
True or False: Putting egg shells in a compost (decomposing organic matter that makes plants grow) pile can ruin the soil
False. Egg shells are perfectly ok to compost!
What are the priorities of the industrial food system?
Scale, efficiency, and profits.
Why is waste management important?
To protect the environment by recycling, composting, and treating wastewater.
True or False: All of the milk used in ice cream can go into compost.
False.
What are some inputs of the industrial food system?
Synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics, monoculture seeds, machine technologies, and fossil fuels.