1. Sustainability in the Food Supply
Think Before you Eat!

2. Aim: How can a more sustainable lifestyle help the planet?
Do Now
Aim: How can a more sustainable lifestyle help the planet?
Randomly select a food from the mystery basket. Use the country of origin sticker at the starting point to calculate how far that food travels from that country or state to your plate here in Kent Washington.

3. QR Code to Miles Calculators
International
Domestic

4. Do you know where is your food coming from?

5. Four Elements of Sustainability
Video:
Sustainable: Able to continue on forever.
Examples
Shipping Fuel
Pesticides in the food supply
Pollution & Deforestation
Less local jobs and less local crop growth for food
4 Elements/”Care Instructions”
Reduce use of fossil fuels
Reduce dependence on synthetic chemicals
Reduce destruction of nature
Ensure we’re meeting everyone’s basic needs

6. So What… Why does my food footprint matter?
Our current food system is unsustainable.
In the future, the world as we know it will cease to exist due to the consequences of unsustainability. These include:
Pollution & Climate Change
Less Biodiversity
Less Jobs in Local Areas
Unsafe Foods
Human & Animal Disease

7. Tracking Cheese MILES: 175 A cow is milked on a farm in Wisconsin.
TOTAL MILES=
The milk is driven from the farm by tanker truck to the processing facility in Sheboygan, WI for pasteurizing.
MILES: 175
A cow is milked on a farm in Wisconsin.
The milk is stored at the farm.
At another facility in Iowa, the milk is dried into a powder for stability.
MILES: 275
The milk powder is sent by plane to the cheese factory in California.
MILES: 1,000
The cheese is made, packaged, and then sent via freight train to the warehouse in New Jersey.
MILES: 3,000
4,928 miles
The cheese is sent from the warehouse to the store in Great Neck via truck.
MILES: 150
The consumer buys the cheese and takes it home in their car.
MILES: 3
EAT!

8. How can I Reduce my Food footprint?
Buy locally grown foods whenever possible (grown less than 100 miles away)
Supports local farmers & economy
Prevents pollution
Grow your own food
Walk to the store, don’t drive
Compost packaging

9. Kent Farmers Markkets Farmers Markets Farms Carpentinos, Kent
Kent Farmers Market
Renton farmers Market
Covington Farmers Market
Farms
Carpentinos, Kent
Sweet Brair Farm
Hell or High Water Farm and CSA
Where to find lots of info on local farms, farmer’s markets and CSA’s

10. Local CSA’s (community share agriculture)
Wild Hare Organic Farm
Oxbow Organic Farm and Education Center

11. Local vs. Non-local Food Mileage
4,603 miles vs. 90 miles…. which would you choose?!
Save 4,513 miles of pollution,
transportation, and fuel use!

13. Commodity Food Chain Analysis
Job Title
Job Description
Sources
Dietician
Evaluate the nutritive value of this food.
Fooducate App
Reporter
Use the company’s website and other research to determine 3-5 steps that get this food from the farm in the country of origin to your table.
Food Company’s Website and other Internet Sources
Statistician
Working with the recorder, calculate the mileage your food has traveled, the transportation involved, and the process that was involved in getting it to your table.
Critic
Evaluate the food overall. Is it sustainable? Suggest an alternative for this food that might be better in terms of sustainability.
Editor
Evaluates the food company’s website for evidence of concern for sustainability.

14. Food Choices

15. Research Sources: Fooducate App

16. Describe 2 ways a person can make more sustainable food choices.
Do Now
Aim: How can a more sustainable lifestyle help the planet?
Describe 2 ways a person can make more sustainable food choices.