Foodprint: cooking with a low foodprint

• Mens & Maatschappij
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Foodprint: cooking with a low ecological footprint

Food footprint

Intensification

Biodiversity

Sustainable food?

Sustainable food production means that there will be no question of environmental degradation.

everything can be reused and the net CO2 emission is zero

Sustainable food production:

• throw away less
• build food factories
• organic agriculture
• genetic modification

The seven steps of eating sustainable

steemit.com

Eating insects?

- a lot of protein, little fat

- much less farmland needed

- much less CO2 emission

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

foodprint

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

Compare your foodprints.

To find your foodprint 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 (3 courses) that is sustainable and tasty.

How?

• work in your group
• look up recipes (ingredients list)
• make a nice slide with your menu (use a picture)
• try to find the foodprint for your menu (each seperate ingredient => websites on next slide) 
• give a conclusion about how sustainable your menu really is, do you need to change any ingredients?

Websites

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

http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/

www.bbc.com