Food Consumption&Production and impact on world

Why we care about food consumption & production ?

Ever since Industrial Revolution, our access to both raw and produced food are guaranteed. We do not need to worry about the availability of different kinds of food. Therefore, it has become essential to choose what we eat to both our personal health and environment we live.

• Food is crucial to our health

Food are necessary for human to survive. However, some food such as fruits and vegetables provide more valuable nutrition and protein to human body than meat does

• Food production can be negative to environment

Feeding livestock which produced meat and processing and transporting food contribute 20% - 35% of our current green house gas emission. Therefore, our current food system is a key driver to our climate change problem

• Future food supply is uncertain

As the global warming and climate change keeps going, forecast shows that there will be a 10% reduction in the productivity in corns and grains. In other words, it is uncertain that whether the supply can meet the growing demand of food in the future

It is worth to dig deep and make more analyzations on food consumption & production since it is closely related to our daily life