Is Our Food Safe?

Is Our Food Safe? book cover — GLOBAL QUESTIONS Is Our Food Safe Carol Ballard

Is Our Food Safe? — page 1 — Chapter 1 Is our food safe to eat Food provides you with the energy needed for everything you do and with all the chemicals your body needs to grow to repair damage and to stay healthy When you take a mouthful of food you probably enjoy the taste Depending on what you are eating you might expect your food to be good for you too But what if the food you eat actually makes you sick If food looks or smells bad chances are you won’t eat it but could there be hidden dangers that you cannot detect We generally take it for granted that our food is safe but how safe is it really Worldwide issues As many as 925 million people were suffering from chronic hunger in 2010 according to the United Nations and more than 14,000 children were dying every day from hunger related causes In most developed countries however there is plenty of food What worries many people in these countries is not whether they have enough food but whether the food they do have is safe to eat While some people are anxious that there might These workers are arranging fish sticks into rows at a food processing factory Today much of our food is produced in similar factories 6

Is Our Food Safe?

Is Our Food Safe?

Is Our Food Safe? looks at the food we eat and questions how much we can take for granted about its safety.

About This Book

By: Carol Ballard

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Published by: Arcturus Publishing provided by Britannica

9-12Age Range

-AR

42Pages

HealthSubject

-Lexile

30-45 minsReading Time

-Guided Reading

-Fountas & Pinnell

-DRA

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