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Where does your food come from?

Where does your food come from?. Where is Australia?. Where is Melbourne/ Geelong?. What is in the bags ?. Let us estimate how far each food has travelled to get to Melbourne/ Geelong? Predict the order from the least distance travelled to the most travelled. Write down your list.

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Where does your food come from?

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  1. Where does your food come from?

  2. Where is Australia?

  3. Where is Melbourne/ Geelong?

  4. What is in the bags? • Let us estimate how far each food has travelled to get to Melbourne/ Geelong? • Predict the order from the least distance travelled to the most travelled.

  5. Write down your list • The shortest distance travelled • To the longest distance

  6. What must we consider? • The more processed the food is, the greater the distance. • The more ingredients the greater the distance. • The locations of farms and factories- Local, interstate or over seas is an important factor. • The packaging also adds to the distance • How you travel to and from the shop

  7. Can we now arrange them in a different order? • The shortest distance travelled • To the longest distance

  8. The Results Are In!!! • Lettuce 54km • Orange - Australian 57km • Fresh or Frozen Chicken 93km • Apple 112km • Potatoes 155km • Milk 348km • White Bread 486km • Cheese 688km • Potato Chips 2,024km • Bananas 2746km • Baked Beans 3132km • Black Tea 8,259km • Orange - United States of America 12,879km • Chocolate 13,174km • Sausages 25,165km Gaballa, S & Abraham, A (2008) Food Miles in Australia: A preliminary study of Melbourne, Victoria: CERES, Melbourne, Australia.

  9. How far do you think a full trolley of food might travel? • 21,073 km by road transportation only • Almost as far driving the coastline of Australia • 70,803 kilometres by in total including trains, ships and planes • Almost twice around the world

  10. Next Lesson • We will talk more about how the food we eat has an environmental impact

  11. Extension • Use an atlas or the internet to find the origins of ingredients of the Australian Made Potato Chips

  12. What are food miles/Kilometres? • Field to Fork • The transport distance travelled by food products between production and consumption. • The measure of distance food travels from the land or ocean to your plate

  13. How can we reduce food miles? Brainstorm! • Use one colour

  14. Watch and take Note • Supervalue: What is the Real Cost of Food to the Earth? What else can you now add to your list, Use a different colour

  15. Class Brain Storm • Food miles are just part of the picture • What else might we want to think about? • Time to write: Persuasive pieceFood miles are the best way of measuring the environmental impact of our food?

  16. Next Lesson • We will focus on what happens to food’s waste

  17. Landfill • Video Field Trip- Landfill

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