FNS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Overconsumption, Overproduction, Food Policy
4 Feb 2018
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Companion planting three sisters garden: corn, pole beans and squash (corn supports the beans, the beans add n and the squash shades out the weeks) Health impacts of food systems: occupational hazards: unhealthy working conditions (pesticides, env. contamination, water, soil, air (33% of ghg), contaminated foods, unhealthy dietary habits, insufficient. Intensive livestock production confined animals: chemical: intensive monocropping, mass production and mass marketing of ultraprocessed foods, development of deregulated and dangerous supply chains, deregulated less control from the gov"t. Policy failure: lack of evidence, who shapes the debate, complexity. In 2007, canada lowered standards on acceptable pesticide use to conform with the us allowing more pesticide residue on food. Dirty dozen vs. clean fifteen: foods that are higher risk of chemical contamination vs. foods that have more protection and less, % of samples tested with detectable pesticides, % of samples with 2+ pesticides, avg. # of pesticides found on a single sample: avg.
