SUSTAINABLE FOOD QUIZ...

AIMS
This quick tests checks what you know about Sustainable Food

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 preparation
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 and Spencer
Co-op
TESCO

8. How many people had at least one case of food poisoning over the last year?
20%
15%
10%
5%

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 proportion of the population are concerned about food safety?
25%
50%
75%
100%

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

12. What proportion of Europeans want to be able to choose whether they eat GM food?
50%
75%
95%
Everybody


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The answers of this quiz are based on the following:
Ref Green and Pleasant Land - What consumers want

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