What are the causes and impacts of food miles?

LO: What are the causes and impacts of food miles?

8,144 miles

The journey of a banana

The journey fruit makes

• Food miles are clocked up by the fresh fruit and vegetables arriving by plane from across the globe.

• Then the fruit gets loaded in to lorries and driven across various parts of the country to supermarkets

• Then once on a shelf the products are then bought by people who then drive it back home.

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How much of our food comes from abroad?

Now 80 years ago

Experts say we should reduce the amount of food we import even further. Why do you think this is?

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How far has your meal travelled?

1. Imagine you are planning a meal from the ingredients from the list here, write down the items of food you would use.

2. Now write down the country and food miles.

3. Work out a total distance the food would have travelled.

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What are food miles?

• Food miles are the measure of the ____________ a food travels from field to plate. This travel adds substantially to the ___________ ___________ emissions that are contributing to ____________ change. ____________ per cent of the fruit and half of the vegetables in the UK are __________. The amount of food being _________ into the UK ____________ in the 1990s and is predicted to rise further each year.

Ninety-five flown climatedistance imported

carbon dioxide doubled

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Its cheaperPeople want to eat

out-of-season food all year round.

Some foods can’t be

grown in the UK

Improved technology

Supermarkets want bigger

profits

People don’t look at

where food comes from.

Causes

• More and more of our food is being imported because:

1. Its cheaper2. People want food out of season 3. Some food cant be grown in the UK4. Supermarkets want bigger profits5. Technology has improved 6. People don't look at where food comes

from

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Impacts of food miles

• Sort the cards into some of the positive and negative impacts of food miles

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Impacts of food miles

Positive Negative

Are there any alternatives?

What can you think of?

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YOUR TURN, you choose ...

• Either ... design a bill board advert for the local market in Surbiton. It should encourage people to shop locally and outline some of the problems of food miles.

• Or ... write a role play interview for BBC Surbiton about the impacts of food miles. You will need to argue why local markets are a good thing and why people should support them.

HOMEWORK

• Design a handout for next year’s Yr9 on either the causes or impacts of food miles.

LO: What are the causes and impacts of food miles?