Understanding the Food System

• This is a trickier question than you might imagine!

• We get it from the grocery store, right?

• Before that, it comes from farms, ranches, and oceans where hardworking people grow or raise our food.

the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock

It used to be that families or villages would raise their own food. It was sustainable and small-scale. In the developed world, agriculture has become "industrialized."

https://www.foodspan.org/_pdf/lesson-plan/unit1/lessonb-industrialization-slides.pdf

In today's food system, food is transported from farm to processing- sometimes far and wide.

What are the approximate food miles of this pineapple?