The food industry has a significant impact on the health of environment as well

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The food industry has a significant impact on the health of environment as well as our own personal health. Pick one of the following videos to watch on a topic related to food and the environment then answer these questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWC_zDdF74s

1. What video did you watch and what did you learn from watching the video?

2. What do you think are the best ideas for making global and long term changes to improve how we feed the people on this planet while caring for the planet?

3. What are three things you could do personally to eat more environmentally friendly?

Explanation / Answer

1. The video was regarding wasted food by Tristram Stuart showing shocking data of wasted food and each and every individual shall now become responsible in using global resources.

2. Best ideas were the way a product is being harvested,undergo treatments, processing,packing can be improved because out of 9 one is wasted over here only. Secondly, many animals that are not able to chew food products properly they lead to its wastage that is excreted as faeces.Several times fresh foods are being are just wasted because they don't seem appealing to our eyes.So, these things if kept in mind while we feed people on this planet would definitely reduce food wastage.

3. Three things to eat more environmentally friendly can be--

a) Using natural food plates made from leaves of plants and reducing use of utensils.

b) Taking only that much amount of food in consideration which I can finish up completely without wasting.

c) Not throwing food items in polybag that might be eaten by street animals which could harm them badly.

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