Problems with Food Production & Distribution
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- Created on: 20-04-14 13:47
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- Problems with Food Production & Distribution
- Is food production controversial?
- some people feel its cruel to force animals to live in unnatural and uncomfortable condituons
- Growing demand for organic meat
- Crowded farms allow disease to spread quickly
- To prevent diseases, animals are given antibiotics which when eaten by humans develops an immunity.
- This means human medicines become less effective
- Animals need to be kept warm to reduce energy they lose as heat
- this often uses fossil fuels to power heaters etc.
- Fish stocks are getting low as a result of overfishing and because we are using fish to intensely farm some animals like cows that don't normally eat fish.
- some people feel its cruel to force animals to live in unnatural and uncomfortable condituons
- Food distribution
- Some products have large 'food miles'
- this means they've been transported a long way
- e.g Green Beans from Kenya
- Makes products expensive
- Bad for the environment
- The transport used often creates CO2 which causes global warming.
- this means they've been transported a long way
- Some products have large 'food miles'
- Overfishing
- Fish stocks are declining because we're fishing to much
- less fish for us to eat
- effects the foodchains in the ocean
- Maintaining fish stocks
- Fishing Quotas
- Limits on the number and size of fish tthat can be caught in certain areas. Prevents overfishing.
- Net Size
- Limits on mesh size
- reduces the amounts of unwanted fish (that are accidentally caught)
- Prevents baby fish from being caught as the holes are big enough for them to escape
- reduces the amounts of unwanted fish (that are accidentally caught)
- Limits on mesh size
- Fishing Quotas
- Fish stocks are declining because we're fishing to much
- Is food production controversial?
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