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If you are like me then you love food, one of my favourite programs has to be The Great British Bake-Off (though my attempts never turn out so good) and I try to grow veg in my garden. But (other than my garden) where does our food come from?

I know I can hear the exasperated sighs and the words of a student I used to teach: "errrr.... from the ground miss!" but in today's society we go to the supermarket to forage; purchasing any vegetable/fruit/nut/meat whatever the season. Yes we know what country our food comes from and whether it is organic and free range, but beyond this how much do we know about its production, specifically: how big is the impact of feeding 7.3 billion people (Worldometers.info 2015)?




Source: The Department Store

This is the wider question that I hope to explore over the next 3 months with my blog 'Perpetually Hungry': where I will use environmental models to look at the impact of agricultural land-use on our environment and question how sustainable it is to continue such methods.

So tune in as I hope to provide you with a thought-provoking read as well as some interesting knowledge that can be stored for those intelligent dinner-party/first-date/meet-the-parents/on-the-train-with-my-lecturer-lets-not-babble-like-an-idiot conversations (maybe the last one is just me). Please comment on posts as I would love to know your thoughts on the issues I cover.

This concludes my introductory post, and so I will leave you with a quote by Tomkin (2002) to ponder on: "Environmentalism begins at the breakfast table."

Till next time!