Food & Water

Food & Water

Assignment 3

1.Which items of food make up the bulk of your diet? How many of these are produced locally? Which countries are the other items from? What proportion of your food choice is organic? For the latter question, how important is it to you to eat organic food? What percentage of your income/family income is spent on food? How do you feel about this amount?

For me, as a young women of 23, and living in an environment of living life in the fast line, it becomes rather difficult to make way for cooking and eating at home in peace. Food consumption and eating patterns are amongst the most hard-to-maintain patterns and routine in a person's life. With a relatively sedentary lifestyle (eating and sitting), it becomes difficult to keep track of time, since working and studying do not go hand-in-hand. One can barely have proper, timely, filling meals, since being constantly on the go.

A major portion of diet runs on junk and fast food joints, with packaged meals and plastic coated edibles (Zhang, Ding & Song, 2006). Majority of these items are produced within the countries and also sharing with the countries from across the globe. As a person, I personally do not like organic food as it does not appeal to my taste; on an average, an estimated 75% of my family income is spent on food and edible items, which are consumed on a variety of occasions. For me, food is an essential component that individuals live for; food, along with telecom, energy and Pharma are amongst the four largest industries of the world, whose annual turnover over $1 trillion. Thus, majority income which is earned and expenditure that is spent circulated and generally revolve around these kinds of industries, specificallyfood, with reference to the situation mentioned above.

2.Research the 100 mile diet, and city farmer websites to find out information about activities in Victoria OR your home town or home country related to food security, healthy eating, shopping locally. Briefly, what is the 100 mile diet- have you heard of it? Tried it? What are the concerns regarding food security in your town/country?

The 100 mile diet comprises a more blog related approach that encompasses narrating items to different people and places, who are interested in changing their lifestyles and creating a more balanced routine for themselves and the people around them. ...