food systems: production, processing, distribution, consumption
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How does the food we eat get to our plates? *Introduce essential question—”How does the food we eat get to our plates?”TRANSCRIPT
Food Systems: Production, Processing, Distribution, Consumption
How does the food we eat get to our plates?
What is this?
What are these?
Critical Thinking
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Potato Transformation
Potato Flow Chart
Food JourneyFoodshed Watershed
Foodshed Vocabulary
Consumption
The act of eating or drinking
something
Foodshed Vocabulary
Processing
A series of operations performed in the
making or treatment of a product.
Foodshed Vocabulary
Distribution
The movement of goods from the source to
the final customer,
consumer or user.
Foodshed Vocabulary
Production
The process of growing and harvesting
products for sale.
Let’s Watch a VideoFarm to Fork
Potato Flow ChartProducti
on
Processing
Distribution
Consumption
Foodshed SituationsCorn to Corn
ChipsLettuce to a
SaladCarrots to a Carrot Stick
Tomato to Tomato Sauce
Venison to Jerky
Potato to French Fries
Strawberries to
Strawberry Jam
Corn to Corn Relish
Tomatoes to Tomato Soup
Peppers to Salsa
Apple to Apple Cider
Beef to Hamburger
Foodshed Steps
Starting with your food, list all of the stops
on the foodshed
journey that food takes.
Then write the foodshed word defining that stop of the
journey.
Tomato’s cooked and mashed into sauce and then canned
Tomato sauce put on trucks and driven to grocery stores
Tomato’s grown on a farm
Tomato’s picked and harvested
Tomato sauce cans are stocked on the shelves of grocery store
Tomato sauce used for spaghetti Final Food
Production Processing
DistributionConsumption
Production Processing
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Production Processing
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Production Processing
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Production Processing
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Food Situation_____
Foodshed Steps
Starting with your food, list all of the stops
on the foodshed
journey that food takes.
Then write the foodshed word defining that stop of the
journey.
Final Food
Production Processing
DistributionConsumption
Production Processing
DistributionConsumption
Production Processing
DistributionConsumption
Production Processing
DistributionConsumption
Production Processing
DistributionConsumption
Production Processing
DistributionConsumption
Food Situation_____
Polite BiteRules:
1. Take at least one bite2. Only say polite things
How does the food we eat get to our plates?
Critical ThinkingWhat similarities are there in our
Foodshed Steps?
What are some factors that can make a foodshed longer or shorter?
What are some differences in our Foodshed Steps?
ChallengeThe next time you eat, think about it