As part of a year ten, citizenship project we have to choose an issue we feel strongly about in society today. Our group of 6 students have chosen to do our project on the quality of food and how it is packaged. We are concerned mainly about meat produce, about animals that are given hormones to make them grow faster and their potential effects on us, about the conditions animals are kept on and how it goes against our morals. We are also concerned about the pesticides used on plants and GM crops, which have unknown effects on our health.

Nationally we are campaigning to alter the packaging of food items so that it clearly expresses vital information about that product, for example if it contains GM crops, if it is Halal or Kosher etc. By doing this people will be more aware about what is in the food that they are buying and the impact of it.

Globally wantto petition to make free range, organic and non-GM crop farmed foods available to everyone. We believe this is very important, as someone’s wealth should not affect their choices about food. If negative health effects are found out about pesticides used on plants, hormones animals are given or GM crops it is likely that the less wealthy band or people will experience the most harm as it is unlikely they can afford organic or free range foods, even if they want to. We believe this is very unfair.

We know we cannot, and do not wish to, force anyone to buy a certain product, however we strongly feel that people should be aware of the possible impacts of particular foods or have the option to buy particular foods, so they can make informed decisions about what they eat and what their children eat.