Healthy Eating Without Costing the Earth
Research & Training
2015
Delivered by
Lourdes Youth and Community Services
www.lycs.ie
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 THREATS FOR FUTURE OF
FOOD
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Life expectancy in Ireland is 80.
What year will you turn 80?
What year will your kids/grandkids turn 80?
What will life be like on Earth then?
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 Our food system CAUSES climate
change (40% total emissions)
 climate change THREATENS our
food supply
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The global food system as a whole produces nearly 40%
of carbon emissions. This includes producing, packaging,
transporting, storing and cooking food
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Worldwide livestock farming generates 18% of the
planet's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Transport is only 13%of greenhouse gas emissions. This
obviously has major implications for food policy.
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2006 report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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Land - land ownership, esp in developing world is v
unequal and dates to colonial times.
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Soil - since 1960, one-third of the world’s arable
land has been lost through erosion and other
degradation.
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Water - By 2025, two-thirds of the world’s
population may face water shortages.
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Seeds/Genetic Modification - In last few decades a
few huge companies have used intellectual property
laws to commodify the world seed supply
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It has taken between 50-300 million years to
form, and yet we have managed to burn
roughly half of all global oil reserves in merely
125 years or so.
Cheap oil is running out.
Oil is now being consumed four times faster
than it is being discovered, and the situation
is becoming critical.
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 The global population of 7.2
billion is set to increase to
9.6 billion by 2050
 Many will want ‘western
diet’
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Poverty reduction – more people in the economy
Growing inequality
Urbanisation & Westernisation
Climate change
Peak Oil & Growing energy demands
Mass species extinction
Soil, air, water pollution
Hunger
Obesity & disease of affluence
Growing population, but rate slowing
Corporate control/Free trade
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 LABOUR ISSUES
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Banana
Worker
Shipper
Shops &
Supermarket
Importer &
Ripener
Plantation
Owner
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Banana worker 1p
Plantation owner 5p
Shipper 4p
Shop or supermarket 13p
Importer and ripener 7p
Total 30p
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As food producers become locked into global food
chains, their prices are forced downwards, they try
to stay profitable by increasing their use of flexible
labour.
 IN UK in 2002–03 a cut-throat price war by
supermarkets on bananas led to prices falling by
over 20 per cent, thus, the extremely low prices then
being paid would have made it impossible for Costa
Rican growers to continue to pay their workers the
legal minimum wage.
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In general, work in food sector, becoming more
informal, less reliable.
Women tend to get more casual and informal work.
Migrants also vulnerable to exploitation
Huge TNCs have the most power, and can control
wages so as to keep profits up.
Safety issues are also a concern e.g. use of
chemicals, fertilisers for agricultural workers.
Child labour e.g. cocoa & coffee industries
Slave labour e.g. Thai shrimp industry
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 FOOD IS BIG BUSINESS
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The Problems with Processed
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Unhealthy – high sugar, salt, fat
Addictive ingredients to sell
Cheap Fillers e.g. cellulose, horse
Lower welfare (people and animals)
More impact planet
High marketing, e.g. to kids
Less educated, poorer more
susceptible
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Invents a new product/a new desire or ‘need’
Adds ‘value’ (profit) to food items e.g. Turns
cheap or free (US corn) crop into highly
profitable
We pay for the ads and marketng and
packaging
‘Externalises’ costs such as water, soil, land
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Monoculture
Needs lots of fertiliser & pesticide & water
Huge areas land, removes people & animals
Needs lots oil
Send all over world
GMO in US etc.
Some subsidised e.g. Corn in US
Floods 3rd world markets, small farmers lose
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Big business
Relies on cheap raw materials such as corn,
soy, wheat, sugar, palm oil
Grown using pesticides, lots of oil etc.
Often uses bulkers e.g. wood or water
Advertising & marketing important
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High commodity costs
Low labour costs
TV ownership
Low fat fad
Access to water,
environmental
protection laws
Intensive chicken
farming
antibiotics
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fertilisers
cheap oil
Grow it Yourself
GMOs
people in cash
economy
Subsistence
agriculture
Free trade laws
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Product: ___________________________
Company: __________________________
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Your profits rose by 21% this year. Congratulations! We’d love to know more about how you managed
this. Can you tell us a bit about the product? What bulking agents did you use to reduce the raw
material bill?
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What other innovative technology did you avail of? (GMO, antibiotics, modern pesticides etc.)
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You also own the plantation in ____________. How did you deal with the emerging trade union
movement there, which is trying to get higher wages for workers?
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Do you avail of any off-shore tax solutions?
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Do you enjoy any government subsidies or have you benefited from any recent free trade
agreements?
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Environmental legislation is a growing problem for many manufacturers in that part of the world, due
to the threat of climate change, soil erosion and habitat destruction. How did you minimise costs in
this area?
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What about the demand from consumers and government to lessen dangerous additives and sugar?
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What was your marketing strategy? Which age group did you target and why?
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Fertilisers (after 2nd
World War from
munitions plus cheap oil)
Consequences:
Monoculture to produce
large amount grain/other
cash crops
• Disease from processed food in
US, UK
• Hunger when poor can’t buy food
• Loss habitats/biodiversity/climate
change/soil erosion
What to do with surplus?
• Give as Food Aid to 3rd World
(make dependent)
• Process to add value
• Force Free Trade laws to open
new markets
Pesticides to control
pests from monoculture
Antibiotics for intensive
produced animals
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 2 billion extra people to feed
 Many demanding more meat, animal
produce
 Climate change – reduced fertile land
 Water scarcity?
 Peak oil, lack cheap energy?
 Soil degradation
 Who owns seeds?
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Some Global Food Issues
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FEED THE WORLD?
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2.1 billion people – nearly 30% of the
world’s population – are either obese or
overweight (The Lancet)
 Huge rise in last 30 years
 Major public health epidemic in both the
developed and the developing world.
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Obesity rises in line with inequality (e.g. US high,
Japan low)
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Lower education/income associated with obesity
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Poorer (low and middle income countries) now
seeing huge rise in obesity & related illnesses
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those on $1/$2 a day target market for food
corporations
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805 million people of the 7.3 billion people in
the world, or one in nine, hungry.
42 percent reduction in the prevalence of
undernourished people between 1990–92
and 2012–14.
World produces more than enough food, but
these people lack land to grow or money to
buy food.
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In rich countries since 1970s , more processed foods, away from home
eating and more edible oils and sugar-sweetened drinks. Less exercise.
In poorer countries from early 1990s but only recognized when diabetes,
hypertension and obesity began to dominate the globe.
Few countries are serious in addressing prevention of the dietary
challenges faced.
“Western diet.” high intake of refined carbohydrates, added sugars, fats,
and animal-source foods. Diets rich in legumes, other vegetables, and
coarse grains are disappearing in all regions and countries.
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Western Diet and Disease
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9 biscuits = global food supply
Following is LOST:
 1 biscuit = lost @ farm (e.g. no fridges)
 2 biscuits = 3 fed to livestock, but 2/3 of that turns
to heat and feces
 2 = throw away directly into bins.
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Ireland is 8th-13th richest countries in the
world
11th most developed, UNHDI (education,
income, life expectancy)
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66% of men and 60% women overweight or
obese
Higher than European average and growing
rapidly
Four out of five over-50s in Ireland are
overweight or obese.
1 in 4 children is overweight or obese
440 diabetes-related amputations were
carried out in 2014
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Number
% all deaths
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Coronary Heart Disease
5,276
22.76
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Stroke
2,107
9.09
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Lung Cancers
1,669
7.20
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Influenza & Pneumonia
1,536
6.63
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Lung Disease
1,248
5.38
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Colon-Rectum Cancers
1,039
4.48
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Alzheimers/Dementia
874
3.77
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Breast Cancer
806
3.48
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Prostate Cancer
525
2.26
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Diabetes Mellitus
474
2.04
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Food poverty is on the rise in Ireland with
over 600,000 people affected in 2013 (1 in 10)
defined as the inability to afford or access
healthy food
children, lone-parent families and the
unemployed hit particularly hard.
One in five of our children go to school or bed
hungry
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In small groups take 3 photos of low, middle and
high income country family & what they eat in 1
week. Compare photos from the 3 places.
 What are main differences
 Which are healthier, more sustainable diets?
 What do the pictures say about trends in food as we
get richer?
 Why are diets changing?
 How do the photos compare to food consumed in
Ireland past and present?
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 WHAT INFLUENCES FOOD
CHOICES
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What people chose to
put in their own mouths
is a personal choice and
responsibility
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An Guatemalan farmer who lives off land and
sells corn in local market
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A lone parent non-driver in council flats in
north east inner city Dublin, family benefit, 4
kids
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A disabled elderly person living in residential
care in Monaghan
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Amount of land they have and the weather/climate
 Price of food
 Their class, social group or ethnicity
 Government advice on healthy eating e.g. food pyramid
 Food advertising
 Fussy eating in kids
 What is available nearby
 Weight-loss diets, or other special diets e.g. diabetes
 Cooking skills
 Climate change
 Commodity prices on stock exchange
 Trade agreements
 Culture
 Large corporate influence
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Car/House/Body exercise
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 FOOD ADVICE
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What we hear
Alternative voices
Eat lots of starchy food
Starchy food is similar to sugar and makes us fat, esp. if
added sugar or white version
Fat is bad, chose low fat
Fat is fine, chose full fat. Low fat and high
sugar/processing is worse
Chose low cholesterol food
Cholesterol in diet is ok, epigenetics decide if problem
for you
Have some meat
Meat is bad for planet. OR Meat is great, eat lots.
(paleo)
Sugar is bad
No evidence that sugar is bad ‘Health Food Made Easy
Programme’
Junk food is bad
Junk food is bad!
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Food Advice via Big Business
Ignore mainstream nutritional advice. Many big nutritional bodies are funded by Big
Sugar http://iquitsugar.com/funded-by-big-sugar/
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 CHOSING FOOD
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Which is alive?
A Robot
Vs
A Person
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Which produces what we need?
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Which is healthier?
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 Chose plants, not food from a plant
 Foods, not food products.
 Enjoy your food, think about what
you are putting in (maximum
nutrients) not what you are
depriving yourself of
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Sugars
Palm Oil, Refined veg oil, trans fats
Industrial Crops/maybe GMO, corn and soy
Fillers, e.g. cellulose
Salt
Non Irish meats
Unsustainable fish products
Fish or meat products or parts
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Total sugar content. Should be less than 5% or
5gm per 100gm to be low sugar food.
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Allow extra 5gm more if a diary product as
lactose is sugar.
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Divide gms of sugar by 4 to get teaspoons e.g.
8gm is 2 teaspoons. Max per day should be 6-9
for adults. Most getting 35-40 teaspoons.
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Margarine – a healthy food?
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How many ingredients? Can you pronounce?
How much nutrition? Protein, iron, calcium..
Fat. Most oils (fat) in processed food are
refined and not healthy.
Low Fat/No fat Many experts say full fat
diary is healthier as less refined.
Salt Controversial whether we should avoid,
but unrefined has more minerals.
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Do we need a points or traffic light system for
food health/sustainablility?
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Look at nutritional info – do you have any high sugar or high fat
foods. Is it healthy fat?
Do you have non-food ingredients? Do you trust them?
Compare the label images and claims with the nutritional info –
any differences?
Where do you think the main ingredients come from (small
sustainable farm/ large industrial farms/Ireland or abroad/factory
or farm) ?
Which ingredients are addictive?
Which are ‘bulkers’ or ‘enhancers’?
Do you think any nutrients have been lost in the product?
Is it good value for money in terms of nutrition? If no price, guess.
Do you think your items are made sustainably?
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Aspartame, (E951) (aka Nutrasweet ,Amino Sweet).
Nuurotoxin and carcinogen. Known to erode
intelligence and affect short-term memory. Other
adverse effects: brain tumor, diseases like
lymphoma, diabetes, multiple sclerosis,
Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, fibromyalgia, and chronic
fatigue, emotional disorders like depression and
anxiety attacks, dizziness, headaches, nausea,
mental confusion, migraines and seizures.
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A relatively new artificial sweetener found
in baking goods, gum and gelatin, has not
been thoroughly tested and has been
linked to kidney tumors.
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Flavour enhancer. MSG is known as an
excitotoxin, a substance which overexcites cells
to the point of damage or death. Regular
consumption may result in depression,
disorientation, eye damage, fatigue, headaches,
and obesity. Found in: Chinese food (Chinese
Restaurant Syndrome ) many snacks, chips,
cookies, seasonings, most Campbell Soup
products, frozen dinners, lunch meats
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Trans fat extends the shelf life of food products
is among the most dangerous substances that
you can consume.
Banned in Denmark
increases the risk of heart attacks, heart disease
and strokes, and contributes to increased
inflammation, diabetes and other health
problems.
Found in: margarine, chips and crackers, baked
goods, fast foods.
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A source of sugar used in processed food
especially drinks
 Contributes to heart disease, obesity,
cancer, dementia, liver failure, tooth
decay.
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May contribute to behavioural problems in children and
lead to a significant reduction in IQ. Animal studies have
linked other food colourings to cancer. Watch out for these ones:
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Blue #1 and Blue #2 (E133), Banned in Norway, Finland and France. May cause
chromosomal damage
Red dye # 3 (also Red #40 – a more current dye) (E124) Banned in 1990 after 8
years of debate from use in many foods and cosmetics. This dye continues to
be on the market until supplies run out! Has been proven to cause thyroid
cancer and chromosomal damage in laboratory animals, may also interfere
with brain-nerve transmission.
Yellow #6 (E110) and Yellow Tartrazine (E102). Banned in Norway and Sweden.
Increases the number of kidney and adrenal gland tumours in laboratory
animals, may cause chromosomal damage. Found in: American cheese, sweets
and carbonated beverages, lemonade and more.
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Organic
Fair trade
Sustainable
Made in Ireland
Low fat/fat free
Contains Omega 3
Natural Flavourings
Traceable
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Healthy antioxidants and lower levels of toxic metals and
pesticides. (latest 2014 researchhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/11/organic-food-moreantioxidants-study)
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switching to organic fruit and veg could give the same
benefits as adding 1 or 2 portions of the recommended
"five a day".
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Organic farming protects soil and pollutes water less.
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BUT it is more expensive. Check out Dirty Dozen list of
most toxic fruit and veg.
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 True or False - processed/junk
food is cheaper, which is why
disadvantaged groups are more
likely to chose it.
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 HEALTHY EATING ON A
BUDGET
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NOT GREAT
BETTER
BEST
Cornflakes & Skimmed Milk
Ready Brek & Full fat milk
Organic Porridge & Homemade
Kefir or Raw milk
Packet of Crisps
Packet of Popcorn
Bag unsalted nuts
Fish & Chips Take Away
Prawn Cocktail (prawns from
Thailand)
Tesco Coleslaw
Centra Breakfast Roll
Burger & Chips Take Away
Can of Coke
Cup a Soup
Nutrigrain Bar
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Instead of this:
Get this:
Tesco Value Chicken Curry & Rice (for
one)
€1.29
2 Value fillets, healthy tikka sauce, frozen
peas, pepper, sweet corn.
€2.40 per person
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
StrawberryYoghurt
Natural Yoghurt with fresh fruit
Frozen chips
Sweet potato wedges homemade
Packet of crisps
Packet of popcorn (not cheesey one)
Bacon & Egg Sandwich
Egg Sandwich, egg and cheese sandwich
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Tesco Chicken nuggets and Moy Park whole chicken,
almost same price per kilo, €4, but nuggets only 55%
chicken
 Bowl organic porridge and Tesco Cornflakes both 10c,
but porridge much healthier
 Tesco Value Cod fillets, €11.96/kg, Birds Eye Fish
Fingers, €10.69/kg 58% Pollock, Tesco value Fish
Fingers €3.88/kg, 65% Pollock. Donegal Catch
Breaded Cod €14.98/kg
 Tesco Everyday Value Chicken Curry 400G €1.29 but
13% chicken
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Tinned wild salmon
Tinned cooked beans
Tinned Tuna
Organic potatoes
Organic/Free Range Eggs
Sweet Potatoes
Large natural live yoghurt
Organic cheddar cheese
Mussels , cod, smoked makerel
Sundried tomatoes (though have
preservative)
Avocados, bag €2
Organic minced beef
Brown Rice
Whole wheat pasta
Almonds, other nuts
Brown pitta bread
Nuts in shell
Free range chicken
Organic apples, oranges
Tinned tomatoes, passata
Fair trade organic bananas
Olives
Organic porridge oats
Range fruit and veg
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 TIPS HEALTHY SUSTAINABLE
EATING
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Real (whole) food, i.e. food in the form that it grows in. The less done to it the better. Cook from scratch as much as possible.
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Vegetables (fresh or frozen, preferably Irish grown in season)
Fruit (as above, whole and fresh better than juice or dried but all have nutrients)
Pulses e.g. Peas, beans, lentils (cook from dried or in cans but not in sauce)
Eggs (free range if affordable)
Poultry (free range if affordable)
Fresh fish (sea caught, not farmed)
Nuts, seeds, nut and seed butters
Tinned fish (esp. dolphin friendly or pole and line caught)
Healthy oils (e.g. olive oil, coconut oil)
Avocados
Live yoghurt, whole milk
Unprocessed cheese, any type
Organic soya products
Irish beef, lamb, pork (not cold cooked meats)
Brown/whole grain/whole wheat bread, rice and pasta (or other starches such as buckwheat, wholegrain couscous etc)
Whole oats (porridge)
Corn (on the cob, polenta, tinned corn, frozen corn)
Jacket potatoes or sweet potatoes
Home-made baking and treats
Very dark chocolate
Fresh or dried herbs and spices
Add wheat germ, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds to cereals. Garlic, parsley and turmeric to stews and curries
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 WHERE OUR FOOD COMES
FROM - IMPORTATION
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Write down 10 things you eat/drank yesterday
and if home made/take away/GIY/organic etc.
 What would you like to be eating more or less
of?
 Share (what you want) with partner.
 Discuss:
 What do you think are the issues facing Irish
people in general in terms of food.
 What determines what you end up eating?
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Imported Food
• Half of what we spend on food and drink
comes from abroad
 60% of imports could be produced in Ireland
e.g. potatoes, carrots, apples ,fish, poultry,
pork.
40% we couldn’t produce due to climate, e.g.
tea, chocolate, oranges
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Are we self-sufficient?
 If there was a problem and Ireland
couldn’t import/transport food, within 7
days there would be food shortages.
 If Ireland had to go back to being selfsufficient in food it would take 7 years.
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Neoliberal Globalisation/Free Trade – all markets are ‘open’,
food is another commodity to be traded. Via WTO
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Price – poorer countries often produce food at cheaper
prices. Most fresh whole chickens here are Irish, once you go
to catering level at the sandwich bar or café, nearly all of it is
cheaper imports, often from Brazil and Thailand.
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Industry issues –e.g. Boyne Valley Honey, says most of their
honey is imported from Europe and South America because
of the wet climate, lack of beekeepers and demise of Irish
bees.
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In small groups brainstorm the pros and
cons of importing food into Ireland, in
terms of environment, sustainability,
jobs, justice, nutrition, variety in diet
etc.
 Watch the film on Kenyan Beans
 See if your list changes.
 Feedback
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Where does our food come from?
Type of food
European Union
countries
Countries outside of
the European Union
Cereals
Netherlands, France, Denmark,
Spain
Chile, Canada, Egypt,
Pakistan, Thailand, Canada,
Colombia, Costa Rica
Prepared foods (includes
processed food like sugar,
chocolate, sweets)
Spain, Germany,
Republic of Ireland,
Greece, France, Portugal
USA, Israel, Turkey, India,
China, Ghana, Egypt
Fruit and vegetables
Italy, Germany, France,
Spain
Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina,
Brazil, Canada, Honduras, New
Zealand
Dairy products
Germany, Belgium, Netherlands,
Finland Austria, Denmark Italy
Kosovo, Thailand, Canada,
Singapore
Argentina, China,
Beverages
Germany, Netherlands France,
Luxembourg
Kenya, Israel, India, Brazil,
Indonesia, USA, Canada
Meat
France, Germany,
Netherlands
Brazil, Thailand, Argentina, USA
Seafood
Germany, Belgium, Denmark
Seychelles, USA, Thailand
Philippines, India, Iceland
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Promotes: economic liberalisation,
privatisation, free trade, open markets,
deregulation, reductions in government
spending, enhance private sector.
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How: free trade agreements, CAP, World
Trade Organisation (rules for members), IMF
& World Bank, EU
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Free (liberal) trade
Policy
Result
Reducing/removing taxes and
tariffs, subsidies, price controls
You can’t protect indigenous food
industry from cheap imports, food
flown round the world
Deregulation (labour standards)
Wages go down, unions quashed,
no minimum wage
Deregulation (environmental
protection)
Big companies can cut rainforest
to grow cash crops
Deregulation (animal & food
protection)
Lower standards of welfare for
animals and lower standards of
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food production
World Trade Organisation
 The World Trade Organization (WTO) supervises and liberalises international trade.
 Started 1995, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which
stated in 1948
 Deals with regulation of trade between participating countries; e.g. trade agreements,
dispute resolution
 WTO is trying to complete Doha Development Round negotiations (deadline 2005) but
developing and developed countries can't agree on rules to regulate agricultural trade
(rich world want to keep subsidies and developing don't agree).
 Famously tens of thousands protested against WTO in Seattle in 1999.
 As with other international financial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank,
the WTO's policies have been critisised for contributing to the widening gap between
rich and poor, for benefitting mainly richer countries and for not seeking to protect
labour rights and the environment.
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a trade
agreement that is presently being negotiated between the
European Union and the United States.
It aims at removing trade barriers in a wide range of economic
sectors to make it easier to buy and sell goods and services between
the EU and the US.
On top of cutting tariffs across all sectors, the EU and the US want
to tackle barriers behind the customs border – such as differences in
technical regulations, standards and approval procedures. These
often cost unnecessary time and money for companies who want to
sell their products on both markets..
FROM: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ttip/about-ttip/
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World food producers contracted by a known
client who decides terms & price
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Small number of companies = huge power
large food retailers or supermarkets (for example, Wal-Mart,
Carrefour, Tesco, Metro);
large food-processing companies (such as Nestlé, Unilever,
Danone, Sysco);
large fast-food chains (such as McDonald’s, KFC, Starbucks,
Subway); and
(iv) other non-food firms (such as Benetton) and private
equity firms (such as Texas Pacific, Apax) operating fast-food
and/or food-processing operations.
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Globalisation
ofSouth
Agriculture
in South
Globalisation
of Global
agriculture
'free' trade in agri-products
high-tech export oriented farming
low spending on domestic farming
open markets to food imports
How were
changes made?
Through IMF
loan
conditionalities,
or SAPs
privatisation (e.g. patent DNA)
increased use of fertilizers and pesticides
less land-reform
less rural reform e.g. irrigation
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What change would I like to see happen? (Who,
what, where, when, how) & to what end?
If this doesn’t happen, what are risks for people
and planet (bad health, poor exams, palm oil
wrecking rainforest etc. )
What do I think are the barriers to this
happening?
What info do I need/questions do I need to ask
to find this out? Of whom?
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How can I check what services are already in
place?
Who are the various stakeholders?/Who is likely
to act on the info I generate?
What might they do, what do they need from
me?
What is my own capacity/budget for this
research/for a future project?
Can I combine getting info with a fun
event/awareness raising?
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Is there a creative way I can display my
findings for 8 Dec? Can I use photos, posters,
graphs, quotes, video, case studies, stat, art,
drama, music?
What are my top 2 or 3 ideas for my research
project?
Can I do a SWOT analysis on them? (Compare
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities &
threats.
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AIM: reduce amount of sugary & highly
processed food in creches and preschool level
in Greystones
FIND OUT: What is being fed to kids/extent of
problem (visit creches?)
FIND OUT: are parents/docs/dentists seeing
diet related problems in kids locally? Are
creches aware? Why do they do it?
FIND OUT: more about the sugar industry
globally, labour and environmental costs.
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When societies are industrialised, what is lost?
What are we addicted to? (Pre-mastication, far &
sugar together, reward pathways)
What does sugar and junk replace, spiritually,
emotionally?
Can we look at meeting a need rather than
asking people to give something up?
Can we make healthy fashionable/desirable? Are
their role-models? Young chefs? Musicians??
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POTENTIAL OUTCOME: Display of finding in
library, talks to parents at Cuidui meetings.
PROJECT IN FUTURE: Campaign targeting
creches etc. Produce a consent form that
parents must sign before sugar given to their
kids. (Not vice versa)
Using photoshop design posters of people
giving cigarettes to kids with shock warnings.
Tap into Say No campaign by SafeFood
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Get kids and elders cooking together
Community gardens selling preserves and ferments or
producing soup, healthy bars, herb packs, GIY packs, green
smoothies,
 Sharing Backyards
 Coops sharing wholefood orders
 Food maps of village/town/city
 Cookery Classes with a difference e.g. sustainability
 Urban gardening
 Ingredient Cards @ cookery classes
 Hungry Planet style photos of people’s trolleys/dinners
 Art using recycled food containers
 Harnessing community orgs to help bring CSA/CG produce to
more people.
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A Community Kitchen is a group of likeminded individuals who come together on a
regular basis to socialise and cook affordable
and nutritious meals. The participants then sit
down to share the meal or divide it up for
each person to take home.
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http://www.communitykitchens.org.au/About/
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Similar: http://www.hopecommunity.org/node/249
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Action Ideas
 Changing Policy/Government
 Consumer Power
 Direct Action
 Cultural Action
 Communications/Awareness Raising
 Walking the Walk/Living Alternatives
 Symbolic/Spiritual
 Solidarity
 Labour action
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