Food Miles and Organic labelling

A very useful post on the GUARDIAN's BLOG
Are Air Miles and Organic Food compatible

Organic Food

This is one of the subjects on your Pilot GCSE exam this year.
What is organic farming ?
Why is organic produce more expensive than non-organic ?
How much of a market share does organic food have ?
Is buying organic better for the planet ?
Is organic food better for your health ?
Do your family buy organic food ? If so, why ? If not, why not ?


A BBC news item here to get you started with your reading...
Also the SOIL ASSOCIATION website.

Questionnaire ideas

We need to be exploring the ideas of:
Uneven Development
Globalisation

So key ideas to explore:

• Why do people buy what they do ?
• Do people consider the consequences of their choices for other people ?
• What about the organic / non-organic debate ?
• Do people consider how the way they get to the shops impacts on the environment ?
• Do people use online shopping ? What are the pros and cons of this ?
• What about particular items which have an environmental impact ?
• Are people swayed by advertising ?

Now turn these into questions: some CLOSED (yes / no answers), some OPEN (What do you think about ..... ?)

We need to think about how we are going to SAMPLE so that we get some Year 7 through to Year 13...

More on this on Friday...

In the meantime, you MUST go and read TONY CASSIDY's recent posts on shops and out of town shopping centres...