1. Where does your food come from? And how it impacts our environment

2. Make a list of what you ate yesterday for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. BreakfastLunchDinnerSnacks & Drinks oatmeal cow’s milk orange juice banana tea maple syrup

3. Classify your food by L – Local, R – Regional, N- National, I-International BreakfastLunchDinnerSnacks & Drinks Oatmeal (N)pumpernickel rye bread (N) Seafood Chowderapple cider (L) cow’s milk (R)cheddar cheese (R) haddock & codfish (R) plain yogurt (L) orange juice (N)Butter (R) Milk (R) banana (I)potato chips (N) Potatoes (N) tea (I)pickles (my Dad’s) (L) Bacon (N) maple syrup (R) Parsley (N) Celery (N) red onion (N)

4. Tally your results – Geographic Source of food by meal and Overall

5. Tally your results – Geographic Source of food by food group

6. My Day’s diet by Geographic Source Investigation Question -How will this change the answers : Time: – Monthly – Seasonally Human Factors: – Culturally – Economically – Age Group – Geographic Location – Two working parents vs One

7. Your Assignment Select a question to investigate Develop a prediction Develop a research method and sample size. Complete your research, analyze & report it. The Process Select Predict Research Analyze Report

8. Use the following notes to help you! http://www.kokogia k.com/megapenny/ Visualizing REALLY big numbers – the megapenny project You are about to view some big numbers! This is to help you visualize them!

9. Total Chickens Slaughtered 2013-14 Basic economic measurements include: Number of slaughter/evisceration plants 185 Number of workers directly employed 300,000 Number of workers indirectly employed 200,000 Number of family farms growing broilers and/or producing hatching eggs 30,500 Amount of corn used for broiler and breeder feed 1.2 billion bushels Amount of soybean (meal component) used for Broiler and breeder feed 500 million bushels Amount of mixed feed used 55 million tons Wholesale value of shipments of industry $50 billion Consumer expenditures for chicken $70 billion 24 million per day !

10. The numbers are staggering Approximately forty companies are involved in the business of raising, processing and marketing chickens on a “vertically integrated” basis. (perdue, swanson, Tyson etc.) About 29,500 family farmers have production contracts with these companies. Approximately 95 percent of broiler chickens are produced on these farms, with the remaining 5 percent raised on company-owned farms..

11. Chicken Facts (continued) In 2011, approximately 9 billion broiler chickens, weighing 50 billion pounds, liveweight, were produced. The United States has the largest broiler chicken industry in the world, and over 17 percent of production will be exported to other countries in 2011. Americans consume more chicken than anyone else in the world – 83.6 pounds per capita – the number one protein consumed in the United States

12. Beef Facts The total U.S. beef consumed was 25.5 billion pounds. U.S. commercial slaughter total was 31.9 million head More than 50 percent of the total value of U.S. sales of cattle and calves comes from the top 5 states: 1. Texas 2. Nebraska 3. Kansas 4. California 5. Oklahoma One McDonald’s burger could have up to 1000 different cows’ flesh – Source: McDonalds

13. Geography of our food supply List the states where the various food stuffs are produced

14. Where are the meat livestock

15. Where are the our livestock

16. Corn

17. Corn (animal feed)

18. Wheat

19. Vegetables

20. Oranges

21. Apples

22. Grapes