ANT214H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Herbicide, Food Energy, Being Boring
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Ant214 | film reflection notes nourish: short films (54 bite-sized videos) Citation: oliver, j. (director), pollan, m. (director), waters, a. (director), & terry, b (director). (2011). If the soil is healthy, our food will be healthy. Nutrient cycle that we interrupt by eating from it. Food can become depleted and unhealthy, resulting in it needing nutrients to provide good food. Anything that grows on a tree is pretty low maintenance. Low yield can eventually result in a huge and high yield producer. When we think about the food we have on the planet, it"s been historically very diverse. As we"ve moved towards industrialization of food, we"ve lost a lot of biodiversity. Few varieties of many foods compared to what we used to have. Losing contact of the rich heritage of food and becoming more vulnerable to diseases (less food security because of loss of biodiversity) Heirloom varieties are the reclaiming of the lost varieties of foods.
