This type of restaurant has come out of the need to meet every higher numbers of consumers who want sustainable healthy food and who are aware that having certain lifestyle habits reduces environmental impact.
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life. You can learn all about the slow food movement through this website.
Entomophagy, the practice of eating bugs, was once widespread throughout cultures. Although it may not be common in North America, insects feed about 2 billion people each day.
Take a look at this infographic from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to see how much food is wasted every year and what we can do to address this issue.
This lesson plan from ReadWriteThink gives students the opportunity to explore the problem of food waste. Students can research the topic with videos and online resources and then create a persuasion map to plan their argument.
If the dates on our food don’t tell us that something’s gone bad, what do they tell us? Find out what expiration date labels on food actually mean, and discover ways communities and governments can lessen food waste. Related Lesson
