where does your food come from? and how it impacts our environment
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Where does your food come from?And how it impacts our environment
Make a list of what you ate yesterday for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
Breakfast Lunch Dinner Snacks & Drinks
oatmeal
cow’s milk
orange juice
banana
tea
maple syrup
Classify your food by L – Local, R – Regional, N- National, I-International
Breakfast Lunch Dinner Snacks & Drinks
Oatmeal (N) pumpernickel rye bread (N)
Seafood Chowder apple cider (L)
cow’s milk (R) cheddar cheese (R)
• haddock & codfish (R)
plain yogurt (L)
orange juice (N) Butter (R) • Milk (R)
banana (I) potato chips (N) • Potatoes (N)
tea (I) pickles (my Dad’s) (L)
• Bacon (N)
maple syrup (R) • Parsley (N)
• Celery (N)
• red onion (N)
Tally your results – Geographic Source of food by meal and Overall
Breakfast Lunch Dinner Snack Overall0
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Local Regional National International
Tally your results – Geographic Source of food by food group
Cereal/Grain Fruit/Veg Meat/Fish Dairy Other0
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Local Regional National International
My Day’s diet by Geographic Source
Investigation Question -How will this change the answers :
• Time:– Monthly
– Seasonally
• Human Factors:– Culturally
– Economically
– Age Group
– Geographic Location
– Two working parents vs One
19%
31%
44%
6%
Percentage
Local RegionalNational International
Your Assignment• Select a question
to investigate
• Develop a prediction
• Develop a research method and sample size.
• Complete your research, analyze & report it.
The Process•Select•Predict•Research•Analyze•Report
Use the following notes to help you!• http://
www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/
• Visualizing REALLY big numbers – the megapenny project
• You are about to view some big numbers! This is to help you visualize them!
Total Chickens Slaughtered 2013-14
Basic economic measurements include:
Number of slaughter/evisceratio
n plants
185
Number of workers directly employed
300,000
Number of workers indirectly employed
200,000
Number of family farms growing broilers and/or
producing hatching eggs
30,500
Amount of corn used for broiler and breeder feed
1.2 billion bushels
Amount of soybean (meal component)
used forBroiler and breeder
feed
500 million bushels
Amount of mixed feed used
55 million tons
Wholesale value of shipments of industry
$50 billion
Consumer expenditures for
chicken
$70 billion
24 million per day!
The numbers are staggering
•Approximately forty companies are involved in the business of raising, processing and marketing chickens on a “vertically integrated” basis. (perdue, swanson, Tyson etc.)
•About 29,500 family farmers have production contracts with these companies. Approximately 95 percent of broiler chickens are produced on these farms, with the remaining 5 percent raised on company-owned farms..
Chicken Facts (continued)•In 2011, approximately 9 billion broiler chickens, weighing 50 billion pounds, liveweight, were produced.
•The United States has the largest broiler chicken industry in the world, and over 17 percent of production will be exported to other countries in 2011.
•Americans consume more chicken than anyone else in the world – 83.6 pounds per capita – the number one protein consumed in the United States
Beef Facts
•The total U.S. beef consumed was 25.5 billion pounds.•U.S. commercial slaughter total was 31.9 million head
More than 50 percent of the total value of U.S. sales of cattle and calves comes from the top 5 states: 1. Texas 2. Nebraska 3. Kansas 4. California 5. Oklahoma
One McDonald’s burger could have up to 1000 different cows’ flesh – Source: McDonalds
Geography of our food supply• List the states where the various
food stuffs are produced
Where are the meat livestock
Where are the our livestock
Corn
Corn (animal feed)
Wheat
Vegetables
Oranges
Apples
Grapes
