Where does my food come from Food miles

Where does my food come from? Food miles.

What are food miles? • A measure of how far our food travels from the land to our plate

Remember: it usually is not direct!

How does our food travel?

Where did your dinner come from?

How do we calculate our food miles? • Mark the food’s location on your map. (source) • Draw a line from the source to Scotland. • Measure the line with your ruler. • Compare this to your scale bar. 500 km

Local vs. Long distance • Which is better to eat? – Long distance food travels further, uses more energy and fuel and produces more fumes. – These fumes are bad for our health and for the environment.

EAT LOCALLY!

But keep Fair trade in mind. . • We still need to support overseas farmers • Look out for this symbol!

Our food travels so far… Source: www. parkfieldict. co. uk

Yet so much is wasted!

Yet so much is wasted! 30 -50% of our food is wasted!!

Homework • Task 1: When helping your parents with the shopping, look out for where food is from. Try to eat as local as possible! But remember we still need to support overseas farmers through Fairtrade. (bring into next class)

Homework • Task 1: When helping your parents with the shopping, look out for where food is from. Try to eat as local as possible! But remember we still need to support overseas farmers through Fairtrade. (bring into next class) • Task 2: Research food waste and food waste solution. Report back one fact of each, on two separate pieces of card. Get creative and make your fact card colorful! (bring in for third class) FACT SOLUTION

Homework • Task 1: When helping your parents with the shopping, look out for where food is from. Try to eat as local as possible! But remember we still need to support overseas farmers through Fairtrade. (bring into next class) • Task 2: Research food waste and food waste solution. Report back one fact of each, on two separate pieces of card. Get creative and make your fact card colorful! (bring in for third class) • Task 3: Choose your favourite vegetable and fill out the vegetable fact file worksheet! (Questions 1 -4)

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!