HW: Self-sufficiency has been the norm for acquiring food

Do you know where your food comes from? Throughout history, self-sufficiency has been the norm for acquiring food such as grains, meats, fruits, and vegetables. People and nations grew their own food and traded only on a local level. Today, food trade between nations has intensified, food is shipped thousands of miles across the globe, and world trade in agricultural products exceeds $1 trillion annually.

Choose 1 of the foods from the following link that you may have in your fridge or pantry:

Click here for the list of foods and food information. http://www.fruit-crops.com/

Complete the following:

List and describe the food item, and include where it came from (check the label or Web site).

Use this calculator (http://www.foodmiles.com/) to determine how far it has traveled to you. Answer the following questions (use the Internet and CTU library to form your opinions):

How does the vast movement of food from one nation to another benefit or potentially harm developing nations? Are there benefits of importing food to developed or wealthy nations?

There is an “eat local” initiative developing throughout the United States and Europe. What are the benefits to buying fresh, local foods? Are there drawbacks? Do you buy local?

Can you live without the food item you chose? Is there a local substitute available?

Knowing what you do of how global food trade affects the global market and the economies of individual countries, explain your position on buying this food item in the future.

PART BPrimary Task Response: Energy Use Table Worksheet (attached) and write 300–500 words You want to be part of the Green Revolution and are looking to find ways to reduce your energy use. But first, you must know what your energy use is. Complete the following:

Complete the table to keep track of your energy use for 3 days this week. Include the following:

What types of energy or fuel did you use (including any renewable sources of energy, such as wind, hydroelectric, solar, etc.)?

What was the purpose of the energy or fuel use (heating or cooling, recreational, etc.)?

Save your chart, and present it with 300-500 words containing the following information:

Which primary energy source does your electric company use to generate electricity (coal, nuclear, renewables, etc.)?

Cite the source for this information.

What changes could you make to decrease your energy use?

What changes could you make to increase your energy efficiency?

Which changes will be most difficult for you to implement? Why do you think so?

energy use table template

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.