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Lesson ideas: Food Technology

Food Technology (KS3/4): Vegetarianism

  1. Show the Let’s Cook vegetarian cookery demonstration film (available from Animal Aid)
  2. Ask students to discuss what they know about vegetarianism and veganism and to complete questions 1-3 on the activity sheet.
  3. Discuss whether it is right for vegetarian or vegan parents to bring up their children with the same diet (question 4 on activity sheet).
  4. Ask students to pair up and to role-play a parent and child debating the issue discussed above (question 5 on activity sheet).
  5. Ask students to write an article for a teen magazine about vegetarian and vegan diets using information from Animal Aid (question 6 on activity sheet).
  6. Ask students to create a vegetarian or vegan-friendly menu for a fast food restaurant or a family Christmas dinner (question 7 on activity sheet). Use information available from Animal Aid.

Useful links

Meat-Free Day

Provide students with copies of the BBC news report and play the interview from the BBC World Service. Debate whether your local town, city and/or school should follow Ghent’s example and introduce a Meat-Free day each week.

Organise students into three groups. One group’s task is to summarise the arguments for having a Meat-Free Day. The second group’s task is to summarise the arguments against having a Meat-Free Day. The third group generates a list of questions to ask the other groups. The for and against groups prepare a sales pitch to present to the third group. They are given five minutes to sell their views. The third group has five minutes to ask questions. Finally, take a vote on which of the two groups were more persuasive.

Number of vegetarians in UK

Ask students to use the internet to discover how many people in the UK no longer eat meat or fish.

Suggested answer: A 2007 Food Standards survey of 3,618 adults found that 3% of respondents were found to be vegetarian, and an additional 2% vegan.

The resident population of the UK was 60,975,000 in mid-2007.

Then the number of vegetarians is approximately 5% of 61,000,000 = 3 million.

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