Where does food come from?
The fruits and vegetables we eat are grown by farmers and growers in fields and greenhouses. Animals are often raised on different farms and are either raised in fields or outdoor areas or inside buildings.
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Animals used to live on farms with lots of other animals, nowadays farmers tend to specialise in one animal. Most animals prefer living outside for most of the year with plenty of space to roam around. However, some farming now keeps animals in large indoor facilities to try to raise more animals more quickly and cheaply.
Sometimes our food is grown near to where we live, but often it is grown in other countries and comes to our supermarkets by aeroplane or boat.
Modern farming and aeroplanes mean that we can now grow food out of their natural seasons, but this can use a lot of extra fossil fuels and water to grow the foods and deliver them to your supermarket, which contributes to climate change and making our planet hotter.
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Ready-made foods like biscuits or crisps are made in factories, where the ingredients may go through many processes before they reach their final form. It is better for our bodies to only eat a few of these types of foods and to mainly buy whole foods and cook and prepare them ourselves.
It is probably better for our planet to eat food within the seasons they would naturally grow and eat foods that are grown as near to where you live as possible. Sometimes this isn't easy as we can only buy what is available in the shops near where we live. Growing our own food can help us to understand seasonality.