Food Provenance

• Crops are either grown - Organically or Intensively
• Food Provenance - Where food originally comes from, either be grown, reared or caught
• Grown Food- Intensive or Organic farming
• Grown food examples - fruit, vegetables, cereals eg: wheat, rice, barley
• Intenive Farming: uses chemicals to produce highest possible yeild, large scale, same crops are grown, pesticdies are used to control pests and protect crops, artificial fertilisers are added to soil to supply nutrients
• Organic farming: uses natural methods, no artifical fertilisers, more expensive, farmers add manure and compost instead, alternative methods to control pests-natural predators, spraying crops with hot water but more expensive and less effective. Better for environment, produces lower yield, more sustainable
• Genetically Modified Foods- foods that have had its genes altered to give it useful characteristics eg. improving growth or changing colour
• Advantages of GM Food- crops grow quicker, higher yields, food is cheaper to produce and buy, have a longer shelf life
• Disadvantages of GM foods- long term health effects aren't known, bad for environment
• Reared Food- animals that are raised by humans for their meat (& other products)
• Factory farmed animals(intensive farming)- don't have much room, cheaper, isn't ethical, more likely to suffer from diseases
• Free range animals- have more space, free to roam, fed organic foods, live nicer lives, more expensive, extra land is needed, less food can be produced
• Red Tractor symbol- found on UK dairy, fruit, veg, cereal products. To use logo, producers have to meets standards on food safety, traceability, welfare, environmental protection. Shows buyers that the food was grown in Britain
• RSPCA Assured symbol- found on eggs, dairy. To be used, producers have to follow strict rspca welfare standards. They care for the animals life; diet, lighting, spacing, bedding and how they are transported
• Caught food- fish
• Different fishing methods- trawling and fish farming
• Trawling- method of fishing. Trawlers are fishing boats that catch fish using nets.
• Fish farming- fishes are raised in tanks/enclosures in rivers or lakes or cages in the sea. Overcrowding, fish are most likely to suffer from diseases