This document provides an introduction to green eating, including defining key terms like sustainability, food systems, carbon footprint, and biodiversity. It explains that food choices have environmental, social, and economic impacts. There are differences between industrial and alternative food systems, with industrial systems focusing more on profit and mass production using fossil fuels, while alternative systems emphasize shorter distances from producers to consumers using smaller farms. The principles of green eating that will be covered in subsequent modules include eating locally, emphasizing a plant-based diet, and choosing foods that are fair-trade, cruelty-free, and organic.
Learn how to transform an existing restaurant into a sustainable operation. This presentation outlines various ways restaurant owners can use interior design strategies to become more efficient with their energy, water, food waste and building materials.
Food and Beverages Sustainability
Concept
According to the Worldwatch Institute(2009) the major problem in the global food production system is in the unsustainable inputs that are sued.
As a result, many forms of environmental degradation occur; falling water tables, deterioration of pasture, soil erosion.
The Western diet, with its high consumption of fish, meat and dairy products is endangering the environment; croplands are diminishing and the ocean’s fish stocks are in decline.
These grim warning signs are matched with some positive signs of awareness in society for health, environmental stewardship and animal welfare.
As a response to the problems being caused by conventional farming techniques the term sustainable food is now used to describe food production that does not take more natural resources than it gives back.
Sustainable food producers see nature as an ally rather than as an obstacle, they are able to produce wholesome food in symbiosis with nature and the surrounding community.
Uk government Sustainable Development Commission, Sustainable food is:
Safe, healthy and nutritious, for consumers in shops, restaurants, schools, hospitals, etc. And can meet the needs of the less well-off people.
Provides a viable livelihood for farmers, processors and retailers, whose employees enjoy a safe and hygienic working environment whether in the United Kingdom or overseas.
Respects biophysical and environmental limits in its production and processing, while reducing energy consumption and improving the wider environment; it also respects the highest standards of animal health and welfare, compatible with the production of affordable food for all sectors of society.
Supports rural economies and the diversity of rural culture, in particular through an emphasis on local products that keep food miles to a minimum.
The term sustainable food may not sound exciting as a description but catering businesses who develop processes to improve the sustainability of the food they offer stand a better chance of meeting the growing demands of individual consumers.
Once the domain of students and hippies the movement has moved into mainstream society and is represented by some very prominent industry players
example
Starbucks, has started selling four categories of what it calls “sustainable coffees”.
The nature of sustainable food often means that they are more expensive than other types of food.
Inevitably, there is a danger that restaurant operations seeking to provide clients with sustainable food choices may increase prices.
There is limited evidence that individual restaurant consumers are prepared to both purchase and pay a premium for sustainable food products.
Consumer attitudes toward sustainable food
Although consumer awareness of sustainability is growing, it is not yet making a huge difference to what customers choose to buy when they shop for food or sit down to eat in a restaurant.
While the fami
Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture.
Title: Building Resilient Food and Agriculture Systems: Advancing actions from UN Climate Action Summit
Speaker: David Howlett
Learn how to transform an existing restaurant into a sustainable operation. This presentation outlines various ways restaurant owners can use interior design strategies to become more efficient with their energy, water, food waste and building materials.
Food and Beverages Sustainability
Concept
According to the Worldwatch Institute(2009) the major problem in the global food production system is in the unsustainable inputs that are sued.
As a result, many forms of environmental degradation occur; falling water tables, deterioration of pasture, soil erosion.
The Western diet, with its high consumption of fish, meat and dairy products is endangering the environment; croplands are diminishing and the ocean’s fish stocks are in decline.
These grim warning signs are matched with some positive signs of awareness in society for health, environmental stewardship and animal welfare.
As a response to the problems being caused by conventional farming techniques the term sustainable food is now used to describe food production that does not take more natural resources than it gives back.
Sustainable food producers see nature as an ally rather than as an obstacle, they are able to produce wholesome food in symbiosis with nature and the surrounding community.
Uk government Sustainable Development Commission, Sustainable food is:
Safe, healthy and nutritious, for consumers in shops, restaurants, schools, hospitals, etc. And can meet the needs of the less well-off people.
Provides a viable livelihood for farmers, processors and retailers, whose employees enjoy a safe and hygienic working environment whether in the United Kingdom or overseas.
Respects biophysical and environmental limits in its production and processing, while reducing energy consumption and improving the wider environment; it also respects the highest standards of animal health and welfare, compatible with the production of affordable food for all sectors of society.
Supports rural economies and the diversity of rural culture, in particular through an emphasis on local products that keep food miles to a minimum.
The term sustainable food may not sound exciting as a description but catering businesses who develop processes to improve the sustainability of the food they offer stand a better chance of meeting the growing demands of individual consumers.
Once the domain of students and hippies the movement has moved into mainstream society and is represented by some very prominent industry players
example
Starbucks, has started selling four categories of what it calls “sustainable coffees”.
The nature of sustainable food often means that they are more expensive than other types of food.
Inevitably, there is a danger that restaurant operations seeking to provide clients with sustainable food choices may increase prices.
There is limited evidence that individual restaurant consumers are prepared to both purchase and pay a premium for sustainable food products.
Consumer attitudes toward sustainable food
Although consumer awareness of sustainability is growing, it is not yet making a huge difference to what customers choose to buy when they shop for food or sit down to eat in a restaurant.
While the fami
Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture.
Title: Building Resilient Food and Agriculture Systems: Advancing actions from UN Climate Action Summit
Speaker: David Howlett
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Organic foods refer to products that are grown naturally or produced by methods that comply
with the standards of organic farming. They are not only environmentally friendly, they are also healthy. Many
people believe organic foods are healthier than conventional food. Today, organic foods have become very
popular and everyone wants to know about their benefits. This paper provides a brief introduction on organic
foods and their pros and cons.
Xwiki Extension Manager in Action, OW2con’12, ParisOW2
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Organic foods refer to products that are grown naturally or produced by methods that comply
with the standards of organic farming. They are not only environmentally friendly, they are also healthy. Many
people believe organic foods are healthier than conventional food. Today, organic foods have become very
popular and everyone wants to know about their benefits. This paper provides a brief introduction on organic
foods and their pros and cons.
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Agroecology: The Foundation for Food System SustainabilityExternalEvents
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Chapter 3 reword
1. In what ways does industrialized farming affect ecological integrity?
Answer: As American agriculture has become more industrial, it has become increasingly dependent on fossil energy and other finite natural resources. The total food system currently claims about twenty-percent of all fossil energy used in the U.S., with farming accounting for about one-third of the total percentage. In fact, our industrial food system requires about ten calories of fossil energy for every calorie of food energy produced. Supplies of fossil energy are finite, and there is a growing consensus that fossil energy in the future will be far less plentiful and costlier.
Pollution represents negative energy, in that it destroys the usefulness of other energy resources or requires energy to mitigate its negative impacts. Industrial agriculture pollutes the air, water, and soil with toxic agrochemicals and livestock manure. It is a major source of pollution, accounting for more than twenty-percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, even more than transportation. In fact, agriculture has become the number one nonpoint source of pollution in the U.S., creating huge dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay and Gulf of Mexico. An industrial agriculture is not ecologically sustainable.
Industrial agriculture also is a significant contributor to the depletion of social energy. Farm workers today are among the lowest paid workers in the U.S., while working under dangerous and disagreeable conditions, most without adequate health care or other fringe benefits. A growing reliance on migrant farm workers also creates cultural and political conflicts, particularly in times when good paying jobs are few. Many farm families fare little better, as independent farmers are periodically forced out of business to make room for further corporate consolidation. Therefore, rural communities in agricultural areas have suffered decades of economic and social decline and decay.
2. The concept of ecosystem services is gaining increasing recognition. What are some of the most important ecosystem services provided by agriculture? To what extent do you think a threatened loss of ecosystem services can drive change in policy and practice? Why?
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2. 1. What is Green Eating?
2. What does Green Eating
have to do with me?
3. Principles of Green
Eating
3. How green is your eating quiz
a) “I’m a level 5 vegan – I don’t eat anything that casts a
shadow.”
b) “I eat a mainly plant-based diet and eat locally grown
foods whenever possible.”
c) “OK, my meals consist of meat mostly, but I do eat
vegetables sometimes”
d) “I would eat a vegan if there were no more cows left.”
Click which answer best describes you to
view your results!
4. Your green eating quiz results:
OK…you must be hungry.
Click here to continue reading to learn more
about eating green.
5. Your green eating quiz results:
That’s great, your food choices seem quite
sustainable.
Click here to continue reading to learn more
about eating green.
6. Your green eating quiz results:
Eating vegetables is good! But remember
everyday that you reduce your meat
consumption you can lower your carbon
footprint!
Click here to continue reading to learn more
about eating green.
7. Your green eating quiz results:
Um, you’re scaring me…PLEASE continue
reading to learn more about green eating…
Click here to continue reading to learn more
about eating green.
8. What is Green Eating???
Green eating refers to the consumption of
food and beverages utilizing principles of
sustainability.
9. OK…so what is sustainability
exactly?
sus∙tain∙a∙ble: of,
relating to, or being a
method of harvesting
or using a resource so
that the resource is not
depleted or
permanently
damaged (Merriam-
Webster).
10. The truth is…
Sustainability can be hard to define, in fact
there is no concrete definition.
Sustainability is constantly evolving and
adapting to a changing environment.
However, there are some principles you can
adopt in your life today to help make a
better, more sustainable future.
11. Sustainability has three major contributing
factors:
– Environmental – what type of effect the food,
from production to consumption, has on the
environment
– Social – the effect the food has on the people
and community, from production to
consumption
– Economic – the cost, profit, and affordability
of food
13. So what does this have to do with
the food I eat?
Foods and beverage choices have a
profound effect on the environment,
people, and economy. Certain food
choices have negative repercussions
including greenhouse gas emissions,
unethical treatment of worker’s and
animals, and a loss of biodiversity
(more on this later).
It is everyone’s responsibility to choose
food and drinks that do the least amount
of harm to people, animals, and the
environment and that help support the
local economy.
14. Before we being, a few key terms
Before we begin a little background
information may be necessary
Throughout these slides you will see
some terms that you will want to
know: Production Processing
1. Food Systems: how your food is
grown, harvested, processed,
packaged, transported, marketed,
consumed, and disposed of;
including all its inputs and
outputs. Consumption
Transporting
or waste
The steps in the cycle can either harm,
benefit, or have little effect on the
environment. There are two types of
food systems: industrial and alternative.
Distributing
15. Some differences between food
systems
Industrial Alternative
• Focus is on profiting from cheaper • Focus is on geographic location
food and mass production • Much shorter trip from producer to
• Food takes a much longer trip from consumer
producer to consumer – Can go straight from producer to
– Average food travels: 1500 miles consumer
• Relies on fossil fuels • Less damaging to the environment
• Much more damaging to the – Less transportation
environment – Smaller farms
• Builds community
Click here to take a tour of the industrial food system
16. Now back to our definitions…
• Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG • Fair-trade: trade in which fair
emissions): gases that trap heat in wages are paid to producers
the atmosphere • Cruelty-free: produced without
• Carbon footprint: basically the inhumane testing or treatment of
total amount of GHG emissions a animals
person, group, or product puts out • Organic: refers to food grown
• Food miles: the distance food without synthetic pesticides,
travels from producer to consumer insecticides, herbicides, fungicides,
• Biodiversity: the variety of life in hormones, fertilizers or other
the world, a given habitat or synthetic or toxic substances’
ecosystem
17. Green Eating Principles
• Over the next 3 weeks you will be learning more detailed
reasons for following the principles of Green Eating
• These principles include:
– Eating locally
– Time to Veg Out with a Veggie-based Diet
– Eating with Ethics (or Eating Green Means not Being
Mean)
18. Who ever said it wasn’t easy
being green…
was just plain wrong,
sorry Kermit.
Stay tuned for our
following modules to
learn just how easy
being green can really
be!
