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food choices and sustainability - Coggle Diagram
food choices and sustainability
funtions of food
physical function
protects body from disease
provides heat and energy
growth and repair cells
social functions
sharing meals with friends and family
celebrating social meals
factors affecting food chocies
lifestyle-busy lives mean harder for parents to cook healthy meals
money- the money into a household can effect choices as unhealthy food tends to be cheaper
family-childeren tend to eat what there parents buy them
ecological issues
food miles-the distance the food travels before the shop(all the transport burns fossil fuels
food packaging-should avoid uneeded harmful packaging e.g.use biodagradeable packaging=breaks down naturally and harmlessly in the enviorment
how living things interact withe their enviorment
ethical issues
involves making desicions on what we beleive to be right or wrong
rearing of animals for food production
the treatment of agriculture workers
fair trade
some times goods can be more expensive
examples of these foods=tea,coffee,chocolate
when farmers are paied are fair amonut of money for their work
vegetairians+vegans
2% of irish people are vegan
many choose this life for ethical reasons they feel its morally wrong to kill animals
8% of irish people are vegetairians