Research Assignment - Food Resources Follow the directions below and submit to the Canvas dropbox ...
Research Assignment - Food Resources Follow the directions below and submit to the Canvas dropbox by the due date. Please follow the question/answer format as presented. Research and answer the following questions. Note: any directly quoted statements, information, or data need to be properly cited. Usage of AI (Chat GPT) is not allowed. Be aware of plagiarism and cite any sources that you may quote or closely paraphrase. Any assignments with Turnitin similarity scores that are considerably high will not be accepted for a grade, although be aware that copying over the assignment questions (which is OK to do) will increase the similarity score, although I will be on the look-out for that and will be considered if there is a "high" similarity score. This assignment concerns many of the topics covered in Units 2 (Climate Change) and 4 (Ecological Footprint) , that which you may use as reference along other with other useful sources on the internet or as included below. Complete your own work. Be aware of plagiarism and cite any sources that you may quote or closely paraphrase. Answer the following questions regarding food resources: 1) Using the below website, outline the basic categories of diets that are vegetarian or otherwise. Then describe your basic diet. Use the below link to categorize various types of diets where variations of animal-based products are in your diet, or do you primarily consume a meat diet? (4 points) https://vegetarian-nation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/vegetarian-levels-chart.jpg 2) List several of your favorite and common foods/dishes that you eat. I suggest, for the sake of organization, divide them into foods that are your favorites versus foods that you eat commonly. If your favorites are what you eat commonly that is OK to list those as either, but likely many of us aren’t always able to eat favorite foods all the time and many of our common foods we consume are out of convenience and/or cost. Just make a list in whatever fashion for the sake of this assignment. (4 points) 3) Concerning two of the foods/dishes you listed above, preferably one of your favorites and one of your common foods, provide an analysis of them from the standpoint of how they are produced and/or harvested, and its perceived impact toward sustainability, or not. Particularly address aspects of food production from Units 2 and 4, such as, a) country of origin/harvest/production, b) industrial agriculture versus locally grown/sourced, c) basic amount of resources (water and food/soil) to produce, d) genetically modified?, e) land impacted, and f) pest management issues?. (6 points) 4) Using either the seafood-watch-national-guide or seafood-watch-sushi-guide, select three (3) sea foods of any of the three (3) categories in any combination, and discuss why (be as specific as possible) they are considered "Best Choices, Good Alternatives, or Avoid". If one of your food choices from above (#3) is one of these seafoods, that may count as one of the three, but make sure you have commented on why they are one of the three categories. (6 points)
