Negative Effects of Food Transportation Lets Review What

Negative Effects of Food Transportation

Let’s Review • What are Food Miles? • Why is food transported? • What is our basic food system?

Important Vocabulary • Greenhouse gases: Any gases that contribute to global warming including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons ("Greenhouse gas, " ). • Global Warming: “an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes c orresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect"(Dictionary. com). • Food Miles: the distance that it takes for the food to get from the farm source to the grocery store. Food miles do not include the distance or time it takes to get the food from the grocery story to your home. (Deneen). • Fossil Fuels: Natural gas, for instance coal. (Hogan)

What are some negative effects? • Produces fossil fuels • Pollution – Greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming

Now it’s your turn • What are some of the negative effects of food transportation?

citations • Hogan, D. (n. d. ). Retrieved from http: //www. sciencedaily. com/articles/f/fossil _fuel. htm http: //upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/en/f/f 5 /Question_mark. PNG http: //addsomesocial. com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/03/Negative-feedbackby-your-fans. png http: //www. page 1 solutions. com/sites/www. p age 1 solutions. com/files/reviews. jpg (All citations not included in this Power. Point are on the website).