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SUSTAINABLE FOOD QUIZ.
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AIMS
This quick quiz about food sustainability

  • Checks what people think and
  • Finds out what you already know

TASK

Select one of the four possible answers for each question from those available (to deselect a choice click the tick next to it). Click 'answers and score' at the bottom of the page to see how you have done.

1. What proportion of people in UK buy organic food regularly?

Everybody
1/2
1/3
1/4

2. What is the reason most people buy organic food?
Environmental/Animal Friendly
GM Free
Health
Taste

3. What proportion of the population do not want GM crops grown in the UK ?
Everybody
3/4
1/2
1/4

4. How many calories of fossil fuel energy are need to produce a calorie of conventional food energy?
10 - 15
5 - 10
2 - 5
Even
5. Where is most fuel used in food production?
Processing
Home production
Transport
On farm production
6. How much of the nation's energy does the production, processing and distribution of food take?
25%
20%
15%
10%

7. Which major retailer built its empire by educating consumers to the benefits of wholesome, unadulterated, food?
ASDA
Marks & Spencer
Co-op
TESCO

8. Who are the biggest Carbon Dioxide emitters in UK food / farming?

Cows
Forests
Tate & Lyle
Associated British Foods
9. What proportion of people in the UK are now obese?

1 in 20
1 in 10
1 in 5
1 in 3

10. What % of the UK population are concerned about food safety?
25%
50%
75%
100%

11. What food would most people like retailers to buy?
Food that has not been grown using
Food where pesticide use is minimal
Food with government permitted pesticides
Any food regardless of pesticide use

12. Who received the most in CAP subsidies between 2002-05?
Small Hill farmers
Largest UK Farm - Farmcare
Tate & Lyle
French Farmers


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