Major Food Sources

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Major Food Sources

• Chapter 11
• APES January 2007

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Food

• What do we eat?
• What do other cultures eat?
• Are we using our food resources effectively?
• What changes could we make to do better?

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Do we have enough for all?

• Can the world support the population that is
  skyrocketing? Can we feed these folks?

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Our global grocery

• Despite the fact that we have innumerable edibles
  on our planet, we exist on
• One dozen seeds/grains
• 20 fruits/vegetables
• 6 mammals
• 2 fowl
• A few fish and marine life

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Our global grocery

• Beef
• Veggie data
• Link for data
• http//www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp

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Major Crops of the World

• Wheat
• Rice
• Maize

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Some staggering numbers

• 1,600 metric tons grown each year
• Staples for 5 billion people
• 60 calories consumed by people directly

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What about special climates?

• Sometimes these crops cannot be grown in the
  areas due to climate limits.
• As a result some folks have adapted to eating
  what they can grow.

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Cool, moist, high altitude climes

• Potatoes, barley, oats, rye

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Warm, wet climes

• Cassava, sweet potatoes, roots and tubers

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Drought options

• Sorghum and millet

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Fruits and Vegetables

• High levels of vitamins
• Minerals
• Fiber
• Complex carbohydrates

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Now for the Decadent foodstuffs

• Meat
• Milk
• Seafood
• Do we need it?
• No.
• Do we want it and like it?
• Yes.

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The Stats

• North America, Japan and Europe (20 of the
  worlds population) consume 80 of the worlds
  meat.
• The 80 raise 60 of the 3 billion ruminants and
  6 billion poultry but only consume 20 of the
  animals products.
• HMMMMMsomethings wrong here?

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HMMMMMsomethings wrong here?
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Heres the most amazing fact

• 90 percent of US grain goes to feeding dairy and
  beef cattle, hogs, poultry, and other animals.

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Ponder that for a moment.
Where should the Life giving grain go?

• Here
• OR
• Here?

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Consider the numbers

• 16kg of soybeans gets turned into 1kg edible beef
  (15kg wasted as heat.review?)
• If you ate it directly you would get 21 times
  more calories and 8 times more protein as well as
  a healthier colon and heart.
• Hogs 2 times as efficient as beef
• Poultry 4 times as efficient

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Vegetarianism

• Could you make an argument that its better for
• Your health
• Human rights
• The environment
• Global change
• An animal rights too?
• Might be something to check into.
• This is why I hunt.

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Arguments against meat

• Tax the meat!
• Meat consumption in the US
• Go veg
• Scary facts from the union for concerned
  scientists

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Ahhhhh..and seafood.

• 94 million metric tons of seafood are consumed by
  humans
• Important protein source for some countries

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So whats the problem with fish?

• Over harvesting and habitat destruction

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Some Scary stats

• Since 1989 14 of 17 major marine fisheries have
  taken a plunge in population
• UN 70 of edible seafood is declining and in
  need of conservation efforts
• 1 in 4 animals caught is an unwanted catch.
• (birds, mammals, reptiles, other fish)

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WHY????

• Pressures of a growing population
• Better fishing technology
• Global warming and habitat damage
• Exotics

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• After decades of growth, the reported global wild
  fish catch peaked in 2000 at 96 million tons and
  fell to 90 million tons in 2003, the last year
  for which worldwide data are available. The
  catch per person dropped from an average of 17
  kilograms in the late 1980s to 14 kilograms in
  2003the lowest figure since 1965.

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Annual fish catch (millions of tonnes) North
America
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Annual fish, mollusc and crustacean catch
(milllion tonnes) by region
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Annual fish, mollusc and crustacean catch per
capita (kg) by region
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Annual aquaculture production (million tonnes) by
region
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Some cool Overharvesting links

• BBC
• 2050 we may be done.how old will you be?
• Threats to our oceans

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Types of fishing methods

• Links to types of fishing
• Pics of types of fishing

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How to save our oceans

• Is it that complex of an issue?
• EAT fish that you know has been farmed in a
  sustainable way.
• Convince others to save the fish while there is
  still time.

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SO what does this all mean to you?
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What role does food play for you in your life?

• Culture
• Survival
• Social norms
• Others?
• How do you make changes
• and still fit in?
• Or do you?