Food Provenance Flashcards
What are the six parts of the flow chart showing food and the environment being sustainable?
What does the environment include?
What four things do we need to do to sustain our environment?
What are the six R’s used when talking about sustainability and environmental issues?
What are seasonal foods?
What is the advantages about choosing seasonal foods concerning the following:
Food millage
Healthiness
Cheapness
Bought in large quantities
Plan ahead, buy what you need, store correctly, cook the right amount, eat it all or store leftovers, recycle what you can’t eat and plan ahead
The air, water and land on which people, animals and plants live
- Using less energy
- Reducing the consumption of water
- Avoiding waste
- Recycling and reusing as much as possible
Rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and repair
Foods only available at certain points in the year
It is more likely to be local or grown in the UK, so the food miles will be low and it will support local farms
It is often healthier because it is fresher- it has not travelled across the world spending time in transport and storage
Foods in season are often plentiful and therefore cheaper
Seasonal fruits can be bought or grown in large quantities and preserved.
What is Red Tractor and what does it do?
What happens to all the suppliers in the Red Tractor food chain?
What will people believe if the food they buy has the Red Tractor logo on it?
What else will they know concerning the animals?
What two things does foods mean if they have the RSPCA’s Assured logo on it?
What animals does the RSPCA’s welfare standards cover?
What five things does the RSPCA welfare standards include (depending on the species)?
A food assurance scheme which cover production standards such as safety, hygiene, animal welfare and the environment
They are inspected and certified to ensure that the food has been produced to a set of standards across the food chain
The food they’re buying is safe; they know where the raw ingredients are coming from and the standards to which foods have been produced
That the animals reared will have been raised according to high welfare standards
That animal has had a good life and it has been treated with compassion and respect, this also means that everyone involved in the animals lives has been assessed and meet the RSPCA’s animal welfare standards
Beef; cattle; chickens reared for meat; dairy cows; egg-laying hens; pigs; sheep; salmon and trout; turkeys and veal calves
More space; natural lighting; comfortable breeding; environmental enrichment; shade and shelter.
What are enriched cages?
What are barn eggs?
What are free range eggs?
What are barn and free range eggs endorsed by?
What are fish that come from Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) label?
What are food miles?
What is food transport responsible for in the UK?
In what four ways does food have to travel further than it used to?
These have replaced battery cages. They have more space and height and nesting area
These refer to the barns where the hens are kept, with plenty of space, perches and nest boxes
This means the hens also have access to an outside area
RSPCA Assured label
Sustainable fishery, ensuring that appropriate fishing methods are used and that the supply is maintained and supported
The distance that food is transported as it travels from producer to consumer
Adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year
Seasonal food all year round; processed food; cheap food; a wider range of ingredients from different international cuisines and cultures.
What does organic food mean?
What artificial things can’t be added to organic foods?
What happens to pesticides?
What is important for those farmers rearing animals?
What use of is banned?
What must happen to the animal?
What type of crops and ingredients are also banned?
What does the Soil Association promote?
At least 95% of the ingredients come from organically produced plants and animals
Any artificial colourings and sweeteners nor use any artificial fertilisers
Very restricted to keep the soil fertile, doing this by rotating crops and using compost, manure and clover which encourages natural wildlife to help control pests
The animals welfare and that they are always free range
Many drugs and antibiotics
It must have a 100% organic diet
Genetically modified (GM) crops and ingredients
Organic farming which includes using fewer pesticides and maintaining higher level of animal welfare.
What is food security about?
What are the four features of food security?
What is the physical availability of food and what does this depend on?
What is access to food affected by?
What is the use of food?
What is food stability?
What is short term food insecurity?
What is long term food insecurity?
Ensuring that all people at all times, have access to enough safe and nutritious food for them to lead an active healthy life
Availability; access to food; use of food and stability of the supply
The amount of food available in a country depends upon how much food they produce, store and trade
The access to food is affected by the cost of food
The use of food is about how the body uses the nutrients in food
Food stability is about the supply of food over time
Happens when people don’t have enough to eat for a short period
Happens when people don’t have enough to eat for a long period of time.
What is self sufficiency?
What is the self sufficient rate of the UK?
What about the rest of the food we need?
What is imported food?
What are the biggest food groups imported in the UK?
How much food is there in the world?
How much of their income do poor families typically tend to spend on food?
What does the developed world refer to?
What does the developing world refer to?
What are the two factors that cause hunger and food insecurity to happen?
The amount of food produced by a country
About 60% of the food we need
Comes from imports
Food that is brought into the UK from other countries for sale
Fruits and vegetables
Enough produced to globally feed all the people in the world
Around 80%
Nations of the world that are considered more economically and technologically advanced
Nations of the world that are less economically and technologically advance
Poor food distribution and increases in the price of food.
What are the three factors that affect the distribution of food and increases in food prices?
What is under-nutrition?
What does food production use and what does this include?
What three other things require this?
Why is it harmful to chop down trees?
What is carbon footprint?
Where does the energy come from required to make and transport the food come from?
- Changes to the environment
- The world population
- Global trade
Eating too little food or too little of a particular nutrient to meet dietary needs
Uses energy to operate machinery, produce fertilisers and supply water
Energy is needed to process, transport and package food
Trees absorb carbon dioxide so removing forests to grow crops or farm animals is harmful
A measure of the impact human activities have on the environment, in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced
Fossil fuels.
What is global warming?
What will be more likely because of global warming and why?
What two other consequence will happen because of global warming?
What other consequence could happen?
What virus could increase in animals in the northern hemisphere and what does it do?
What will happen to meat prices in the north as a result?
What are pesticides?
What do pesticides contribute to in the environment?
What do fertilisers do?
What do most fertilisers contain and what affect does this have?
What happens when a large amount of fertiliser enters a pond, river or lake?
What has overfishing done to fish?
A slow increase in the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere caused by the release of too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
Droughts and floods because rainfall patterns will change
- An increase in temperatures could also trigger more insect activity, which may damage crops
- Food production might become difficult
It could affect the spread of animal and crop diseases
The bluetongue virus affects sheep and is transmitted by a biting midge
Affected animals are culled and meat prices increase as a result
Chemicals that destroy pests or creatures that are harmful to crops
The removal of key species from the environment
Improve the soil by adding nutrients
Most contain nitrates which can have a harmful effect on water supplies
It kills the plants and fish
Depleted fish stocks to levels which they may not be able to recover.
What has the increased demand for fish led to?
What does this involve?
What is a sustainable environment?
What two things need to happen in order to cope with the ever growing population in the future and to meet demands?
In what two ways can food prices rise?
What two unfair rules happen in the global trade making it unfair for poorer countries?
What is also unstable in the global trade market and who
does it affect and how?
Who control the trade of food and what does this result in?
The development of fish farming or aquaculture
Raising fish and shellfish in tanks or enclosures in the sea or lakes for food
Where the demands placed on the environment can be met without reducing its ability to allow all people to live well, now and in the future
World food production will need to rise by 70% and food production in the developing world will need to double
- Food supplies are limited
- Demand for food increases
Poor countries are encouraged to import food from rich countries but cannot easily export their foods from rich countries
Prices are very unstable. Farmers planting crops take a huge risk that the price may have fallen by the time they reach harvest
A few big companies control the trade of food. When prices go up they keep the profits for themselves excluding the farmers who grew them.
In what three ways must we change the production, processing and distribution of food in order to feed the growing population and protect the environment?
What is and does precision farming use?
What two things are used to check the growth of crops and use of fertilisers?
What could the use of genetically modified crops do?
What two types of crops would allow farmers to grow more food?
What would this then result in?
What is wasted due to too much in production, storage, transporting, retailing and consumption the stuff?
What is increased by reducing the amount of meat and dairy products eaten?
By eating which foods will help reduce greenhouse emissions?
Use the same or less land; use less water, fertiliser and energy; produce less waste
Uses technology to manage the environment and get the highest possible harvests from the land available
The use of satellite systems and unmanned aerial vehicles to check the growth of crops and use of fertilisers
It could reduce the amount of food that is wasted and increase the amount of food grown
High producing and drought resistant crops
Less land needing to be used for production
Food
Food security
More vegetables, fruit, cereals and smaller amount of animal products.
What buying of two types of foods increases food security?
What increases global food security?
What do these sources offer?
Buying local and seasoned foods
If consumers buy food from trusted sources
Disadvantaged producers a fair and stable price for their products and often protect the wildlife and ecosystems
