Cda Competency Goal 1

Production and consumption habits of humans can fall into multiple categories.   The basics of food, fuel, water and minerals fall into both production and consumption categories.   I believe the human consumption all four are viable topics to discuss especially when we are in search of how sustaining them for the current world population.
The dominant animal is wasting its brilliance and its wonderful achievements; civilization's fate is being determined by decision makers who determinedly look the other way in favor of immediate comfort and profit. Thousands of scientists recently participated in a Millennium Ecosystem Assessment that outlined our current environmental dilemma, but the report's dire message made very little impact. Absent attention to that message, the fates of Easter Island, the Classic Maya civilization, and Nineveh—all of which collapsed following environmental degradation — await us all. (Contemporary and Environmental Issues, Jon Turk and Terrence Bensel)
Food can be in multiple aspects, but no matter how you look at it, almost every food needs to have some sort of production.   That production can be planted and farmed or manufactured.   If the item is manufactured then it depends on some food sources that is planted and farmed.   Popcorn for example must be manufactured but depends greatly on corn harvest among other additives that may be added to the finished product.   As a farmer you cannot plant corn every year in the same field, so you must have the ability to plant multiple products so you can move each harvest from field to field annually.
You could also plant corn one year, and wheat the next and so on, but your profits will depend on the current market value and hopefully that year’s harvest isn’t the lower end of the price scale that year.  
Most people eat popcorn whether it’s at the movie theater or microwaveable popcorn at home.   “It is estimated that the average person eats the equivalent of 3.25 lbs of unpopped... [continues]

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