Food Project

One of the most unhealthy parts of common American

Diets, are the pesticides that seep into our food. Its
almost impossible to get away from, but meat, fish, and
dairy contain the most.

95 to 99 percent of the toxic chemicals found in our food is found in
meat, fish, dairy, and eggs.
Meat contains 14 times more pesticides than plant foods, and dairy
has 5 times more pesticides than plant foods

Pesticides In our Food
Factory Farms often spray their animals
directly with pesticides to ward off parasites
or fungi. However this seeps through their skin
into what we eat. They are also fed food that
contains pesticides within them.
How Pesticides Get in Our Food
The Food and Drug Administration's own Total Diet Study
discovered
Bacon had 48 pesticide residues
Bologna and other lunch meats had 102
Fast Food Hamburgers had 113
Hot Dogs 123
Ground Beef 82
Pesticides in Our Food
In 1972 the Environmental Protection Agency banned the DDT
pesticide. However still in use

Chlordane which is 4 times more carcinogenic
BHC, 19 times more
HCB 23 times more
Dieldrin 47 times more
Pesticides in Our Food
Pesticides are being used more and more due to
unhealthy living conditions for the animals.
Pesticides
1. Decreasing your meat decrease pesticides and trans
fats put into your body
2. You can supplement protein with nuts, beans and ken
iowa
3. High Meat Diets for protein such as Atkins, the South
Beach Diet, or Proteinuria, puts stress on your kidneys,
adds to a risk of cardiovascular disease, makes you more
irritable, and the lack of glucose received can add to
fatigue.
Decrease Your Meat
1. Buy in season and on sale food
How to Buy Cheap and Healthy
Healthy store bought stack
1. pound of granola (36
cents)
2. 1 banana (10 cents)
3. 1 apple (88 cents)
Total 1.34
Medium Fries From
McDonalds
Total: 1.87
Pesticides are clearly bad for you and are found most
common in fast food. However some people cant afford
healthy organic food.
Cheap Food
Portion Sizes
1. Do not eat less
2. Eat more times a day but with smaller portions
2a. This helps your body learn when youre
hungry
2b. It also helps decrease food waste

Dieting: What's Healthy and What's Not.
It is common to go on a no-carb diet, which is
extremely unhealthy. The problem is not carbs, it is
the type of carbs.

Simple (unhealthy): white flour, white pasta, white rice, white
sugar
Complex (healthy): potatoes, yams, barley, corn, beans, keionia
and anything whole wheat instead of white. (rule of thumb: brown
over white).
Carbohydrates
1. Fruit is incredibly healthy for you, but you should eat it
and digest it before eating other foods.
2. Cleanses are great for you body but if you do it for
more than two days it can become problematic. Cleanses
that eliminate food, make it easier to gain weight later.
1. Good - One to two day cleanse
2. Cleanse in the morning or at night without
elimating food in the day
Fruit and Cleanses
Food Miles
Food miles is the distance it takes
to ship food from location from where it is
grown to another where it will be consumed.

The resulting pollution increases substantially
when we consider produce and goods
imported from halfway around the world

The modes of transportation also matter in
regards to food miles. For example: importing
food from airplane creates more emissions than
by ship.
A lot of food is imported due to the need to have certain produce year
long, so much of this is grown over seas in different regions.


This has created a culture where we expect food to be available to us no
matter the season, which we pay for by pollution and rising Co2
emissions produced by this shipping

Nearly half of all fruit sold in the United States is imported, and that produce grown in North
America travels an average of 2,000 km from source to point of sale.
50% of produce is what is imported to supply chains while only 11% of meat is imported from
long distance suppliers


Ease of food
Food produced from overseas can be full of harmful pesticides, fertilizers
and made through unsustainable techniques

These farms have been known to cut through the native forests and
wildlife of these countries

inequality and lack of restrictions result in poor wages and conditions for
many of these workers growing food for Americans at home

Overseas Food
Almost 250,000 tons of global warming gases released were attributable to
imports of food productsthe equivalent amount of pollution produced by more
than 40,000 vehicles on the road or nearly two power plants.
-More than 6,000 tons of smog-forming nitrogen oxides were released into
the airthe equivalent of almost 1.5 million vehicles or 263 power plants

It is estimated that we currently put almost 10 kcal of fossil fuel energy into our
food system for every 1 kcal of energy we get out.

Impact from food miles


Choose local produce when its in season.

Look on the labels to see how far your food traveled and ask to carry more local foods

Certain foods are typical for being imported from abroad, stay away from cherries,
blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and asparagus unless
you know they are in season or produced locally
local Food
Buying local food is good for the
local economy. It supports local
businesses and reduces carbon
emissions from the distance the
food travels by truck, planes, ships,
and train.
Historically, patterns of food consumption have changed from a diet
based mainly on locally produced foods to a diet where exotic fruits,
vegetables and spices are commonplace.
Due to changing diet and ease of food many people consider having out
of season food year long a right to have

-Ways to enjoy food without worrying about food miles is to preserve your
food while its around and save it for the rest of the year

Preserving food
FOOD WASTE- Individual
Home waste

School food waste

Restaurant food waste

14 to 15% --untouched or unopened-- University of Arizona in 2004

Home waste--unopened food
$43 billion worth of discarded, but edible,food
=11 times Oregon population to have apple mac
=22 times Oregon population to have i phone 5s

93 percent of respondents acknowledged buying foods they never used.--
Cornell University food and Brand Lab

Solutions
1.Pay attention to the date of food in your fridge
2. How to make fresh food to store longer ?
How to cook the food that you cannot eat anymore more efficiently?
(Recycle food)
Change one thing to another
Curing, wind-drying, alcohol pickling and smoking.


Video link

4:55-8:18 Korean

33:27-34:56 Chinese
School food waste-- Uneaten food
Video showing
time
The occasion
in our school
142-200
Solutions
1. Customer (Students and teachers):
-Do not ask for so much food for a time,eat one plate and
another.
-Take sample
Server: Do not provide a huge proportion of food for one
time.

3. Know the price of the food and calculate how much you
waste today.
1kg =2 apples or 2 bananas
2. Make the food style and taste better
Restaurant food waste--
Over ordered food
Especially in China
120 billion *1.1=132 billion lb / year
Storing, transporting and processing
77 billion lb per year
Feasting 55 billion
Survive the population of 200 million in
China


Custom to maintain the relationship of
relatives.
Solutions
Cannot eat them all?
Take them to home, heat them for
the next days meal.
Think of other people, stand in other
ones perspective
What about homeless people
Food is limited in the world
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