Food Comes From Someplace Food is everywhere and yet where does it come from? Consumers see food stacked and organized in groceries and restaurants magically bring the food from the kitchen. But food has to come from someplace, doesn’t it? This FoodChat aims to help consumers understand the origins of food and help farmers learn more about consumer’s questions.
- What is the definition of ‘food’?
- Tell us where your food came from tonight. Which States/Countries?
- Does it matter where your food comes from?
- Are there tools to help us learn where food comes from?
- If you are a farmer/rancher/gardener what foods to you raise/produce? Where can people buy them?
- Look in your kitchen: Which food traveled the farthest to get to your refrigerator/pantry?
- Have any farmers/ranchers been on an ag trade mission to a foreign country? What were goals?
- What are the pros/cons of a global food marketplace?
- When buying global do you look for Fair Trade/Rain Forest Alliance labels?
- What do you consider local?
- How do we teach kids (home & school) where their food comes from?
- When you move, how do you connect with food producers in a new location (rural or urban)?
- Most of us have ancestors from another country. Which foods did they bring to USA/Canada?
