Foodprint: cooking with a low foodprint

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Foodprint: cooking with a low ecological footprint

Food footprint

Intensification

Biodiversity

Sustainable food?

Sustainable food production means that there will is no environmental degradation (meaning damage to the environment).

Everything can be reused and the net CO2 emission is zero

HOW TO?

Sustainable food production:

• Throw away less
• Build food factories
• Organic agriculture
• Genetic modification (GM)

The seven steps of eating sustainably

steemit.com

Eating insects?

- Rich in protein, little fat

- Much less farmland needed

- Much less CO2 emission

- You need (way) less food for the insects than for other animals

"Food"print

How much impact does your eating pattern have on our environment?

Compare your "food"prints.

To find your "food"print use the website on the next slide.

Is there a difference in German eating pattern and Dutch eating pattern?

foodprint.org

Talk together (2 minutes)

• What are you doing to eat more sustainable?
• What do you find difficult?
• Is sustainable food cheaper or more expensive?

The assignment

Put together a menu (consisting of at least 3 courses) that is sustainable and tasty.

Email de PowerPoint to [e-mail]

How?

• Work in your group
• Look up recipes (ingredients list)
• Make a nice slide with your menu (use a picture)
• Try to find the "food"print for your menu (each separate ingredient => websites on next slide) 
• Give a conclusion about how sustainable your menu really is, do you need to change any ingredients?
• Email
  

Websites

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714

http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/

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