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Sustainable Food Production and Consumption in Hawaii
- 1. Sustainable Food Production and Consumption in Hawaii Rachel Cabanilla Matthew Luga Sean Costales
- 2. What Is Food Sustainability — There is no legal definition to sustainable food but it does contribute to the following: — To thriving local economies and sustainable livelihoods — To protect the diversity of both plants and animals to avoid damaging natural resources and contributing to climate change — Provide social benefits, such as good quality food, safe and healthy products and educational opportunities.
- 3. How Our Food Is Produced — In most supermarkets today you can find around 47,000 products to choose from — Most of the food in the U.S. is controlled by a handful of corporations that only care about producing the most efficient food for profit regardless of how dangerous it is to our health — Many of these foods contain highly processed foods with no nutrition and toxic chemicals/additives
- 4. How We Get Our Food — Hawaii today is very dependent on food sources from other places around the world — We use ships and airplanes to carry food, these vehicles have their own engines to power the extra cooling needs — However this consumes large amount of oil which is very expensive and creates large amounts of CO2 pollution damaging the earth creating global warming — Global warming is an event responsible for weather change, melting of polar ice caps, negatively effecting the ocean, etc.
- 5. The Impacts Of The Food We Produce And Buy — Greenhouse gas emissions are created during the production and distribution of food — Soils, water, natural resources and energy are used to produce, harvest, transport, process, package, distribute and market all our food products — We can reduce the environmental impact by changing our actions towards food production and food waste — Farmers use untraditional, and sometimes dangerous methods/chemicals to mass produce food
- 6. How Our Food Should Be Produced — Food should be produced how local farmers produce it — Not using a lot of chemicals — Not putting too much stress on the animals — Not genetically engineering crops
- 7. Where Our Food Should Come From — Food should be coming from sustainable farmers — Local Farmers — Helps increase the demand for local produce — Helps the local economy — Grow your own — Simple vegetables and garnishes — Start a small garden — Only use the resources you need
- 8. The Impacts of More Sustainable Food Choices — “We are what we eat” — Less pollution = better and more resilient environment — More opportunities for your local community — Happier tummies and healthier bodies
- 9. Suggestions On How To Be A ‘Sustainable Foodie’ — Go organic or at least fresh (less packaged) : It is better for you and it is better for the environment — Support local: Have your family go to the farmers market instead of the grocery store — Self-sustainable: Have fun and grow your own garden — Eat less meat: Try new recipes that do not require meat — Communicate with your family, friends, and community to share your knowledge and create change.
- 10. What Did You Learn? — Please fill out our questionnaire for feedback — Share answers for discussion — Do you have any questions?
- 11. Mahalo!
- 12. Works Cited — Food. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/changing_the_way_we_live/fo od/ — Eat local, buy local, be local . (2009, January ). Retrieved from http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/eatlocal/ — What is sustainable food . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.sustainweb.org/sustainablefood/what_is_sustainable_foo d/http://healthychild.com/ — Sheppard, J. (2009, June 20). The socking truth about how food is produce. Retrieved from http://healthychild.com/healthy-kids-blog/the- shocking-truth-about-how-food-is-produced/ — Hawken, P. (2010). Sustainable world sourcebook . (pp. 63-65). CA: Sustainable World Coalition