C3 Food matters
For teachers and students
- http://www.ukagriculture.com/field_to_fridge/field_to_fridge.cfm
The Farming and Countryside Education (FACE) website features sequences of images that trace food from field to fridge. - http://www.efma.org/
This website from the European fertilizer manufacturers gives the industry view of the benefits of fertilizers. - http://www.whyorganic.org/
The Soil Association has a website to make the case for organic food. - http://www.food.gov.uk/
The Food Standards Agency offers the latest news and advice about issues related to food. There is a section about the science and research that informs the decision making of the agency. Coverage of pesticides and food additives is in the ‘Safer eating’ section under ‘Chemical safety’. There is also coverage of organic food in the ‘Food Iindustries’ section under ‘Farmers and growers’. - http://www.ecpa.be/Field2Fork/
Field2Fork is a website linked to an industry campaign about pesticides. It includes a useful PowerPoint presentation with animation in the ‘Media’ section of the site. There is also an image gallery. - http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/home.asp
This website offers authoritative information about pesticides from the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD), which is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra). - http://www.pan-uk.org/
The Pesticide Action Network campaigns to protect the public from pesticides. - http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/
The ‘Eat well’ website from the Food Standards Agency covers a wide range of issues related to food, including food labelling. There is an interactive food label on the site. There are sections dealing with organic food, diabetes (under ‘Health issues’), and another section debunking ‘Food myths’. - http://www.foodfitness.org.uk/aboutus.aspx
This website from the Food and Drink Federation includes a quiz: ‘How healthy is your lifestyle?’ - http://www.understandingfoodadditives.org/
The Chemical Industry Education Centre, supported by the Food Additives and Ingredients Association, has developed a comprehensive website about additives, including a range of suggestions for practical activities. - http://cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm
The website from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in the US includes a section about Food additives. This highlights the main worries associated with particular additives. - http://www.defra.gov.uk/
The website of the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) covers food risks along the food chain. - http://www.dh.gov.uk/
The Department of Health website covers health issues related to food and diet.
For teachers
- http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html
‘Store Wars’ has been produced by the Organic Trade Association. It is a fun but hard-line pro-organic web site, based on the plot of Star Wars. - http://www.sycd.co.uk/only_connect/pdf/everywhere/citizenship/food_safety.pdf
This site includes teaching suggestions and sources of information linking science and citizenship education in the context of food. - http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Measure_Up_-_are_you_at_risk_of_diabetes/
Websites about diabetes need to be used with care. The long-term consequences of the disease can be upsetting for those with diabetes or those who know someone with diabetes. Diabetes UK provides information for people who want to know more about the disease and its treatment. - http://www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu/hccpquiz.pl?lang=english&func=home&quiz=diabetes
This Harvard website has an interactive questionnaire to estimate an individual’s risk of diabetes and to provide tips for prevention based on the responses submitted. - http://www.who.int/diabetes/BOOKLET_HTML/en/
This website from WHO gives an international perspective on diabetes. - http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/knowledgecentre/education/
The Knowledge Centre in the Wellcome Trust website includes a section on educational resources which includes the ‘Big picture’ series. See particularly the January 2005 issue about obesity. - http://www.irishhealth.com/clin/diabetes/video.html
The videos in the Diabetes Clinic on the Irish Health website feature Dr Seamus Streenan talking about the disease. The first two or three are particularly relevant to the course.