healthy food

Where dowheres food come from?

How is it made?




Easy. You know the answer already, don’t you? Food comes from farms – right?

Wrong! It’s true that most food comes from farms in the first place, but most of the stuff people eat today has been processed so much in factories. It also comes from fishing. Everything else is processed let’s have a look at each: farming fishing and processing.

Farming:

Farming is a very efficient way of growing the sort of food in very large amounts. Today, people in poor countries continue this way of growing food because they cannot afford the machinery and chemicals needed for modern industrial farming. Industrial farming makes loads of food but it damages the land, sea and air. There are alternatives such as organic farming which is sustainable. The problem with organic farming is that the farmers have to be much more skilled. They can’t rely on spraying and 'instant' fertilisers and have to plan their crops in a very different way. This means more people have jobs and this type of farming is nature-friendly... but organic food is more expensive. Modern industrial farmers say that only they can ‘feed the world’; preferably using genetically engineered crops. The sustainable farmers say this is nonsense. But sustainable farming has to be the future because industrial farming does so much damage to the world we all live in and the oil it depends on will run out.



Fishing:

People who lived near lakes, rivers and the sea often depended on fishing for much of their food. Today, most small fishermen who just catch enough fish for themselves with some left over to sell locally, have lost their jobs. Why? Because humans always want more and more of everything. They’ve built big ships which can catch millions of fish in just a few days so there aren’t enough left to breed and make baby fish. No baby fish means no new adult fish… which soon means no fish at all! And because of the pollution from chemicals from farming and factories – which gets into the rivers and then the seas – many fish are either not able to breed or contain so much pollution themselves that they are not good to eat any more.. Some people have found that they can farm fish too. This seems like a good idea until you find that they too use poisons on the fish to stop diseases which only start because the fish are kept close together in tanks or floating net cages in the sea. Of course, not everything that comes out of the sea is a fish. People catch lots of animals like squids and octopuses, shellfish, crabs and lobsters.



Food processing:

Even if you buy flour to make your own bread, that flour is processed. First the wheat grains get ground up in a mill and then different parts, like the brown outside of the seed, get separated. Then, if you don’t make your own bread (hardly anyone does this anymore), the flour is mixed with other ingredients and baked in an oven to make the loaf you buy in the shop. That’s an example of simple food processing. Almost every food you buy in a packet, box or tub is processed in some way. This is where some problems can start.

Most of the food you eat will have been processed in a factory in some way. Food processing used to be done at home but now, people have become rather lazy – or just too busy - and prefer to have someone else do it so they can buy and eat right away. This adds to the cost.

Good and bad foods:

-Almost anything fresh is a good start. Better still is fresh organic food.
-Oily fish
-Vegetables, particularly orange- or dark green ones (carrots, chard, broccoli, squashes like pumpkins)
-Fruits
-Oats and other fibre-rich grains
-Pulses (beans, peas)
-Certain vegetable oils which are high in monounsaturates (olive, canola)










-Most processed foods – which generally contain sugar, salt and fat
-Fatty foods like margarines, butter, cream, most cheeses, fatty meat
-Sugar and sugary foods like cakes and candies
-Food containing additives and colourings
-Sugary or diet soda drinks
-Salty foods
-Junk food
-Fast food and takeaways



Does everyone have food?

Nearly 1 billion people on our planet – three times more people than live in the United States - are constantly short of food or near starving. This seems doubly wrong when you think that almost the same number have so much food they get to be overweight and even obese. Couldn’t humans divide things up a little more fairly? We seabirds never eat more than we need. You know why? We can’t afford to get fat! Can you imagine a fat penguin trying to catch a fish? We have to stay sleek and healthy. Humans can get fat and it doesn’t matter (though they might be quite unhappy about it) because they don’t have to hunt their food. They can just get into their cars and drive to the supermarket or takeaway when they feel hungry.

That other billion people – the hungry and starving ones – can’t get enough food to eat because they are so poor. They can’t afford to buy food – or can only afford the very cheapest, low quality stuff no one else wants. If they each had a little piece of land, they could grow their own. But they don’t because most of them live in slums (favelas, pueblos jovenes). They can’t get jobs because there are none, so often they have to beg, steal or scavenge the garbage from richer neighbourhoods.

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