Food and Transport

1. Food and Transport

2. Pineapple

3. Origin • Grown by the South Americans • Discovered by Columbus • Introduced to Europe and spread due to its high content of Vitamins and nutritious values. • Used to cure scurvy

4. Why imported • Pineapple can not be cultivated in Europe due to the climate • It was used for medicinal purposes

5. From who • Belgium: Brazil, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica • Poland: Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand • Norway: Costa Rica, eastern and western Africa • Uk: Ghana, Brazil, Hawaii and Costa Rica

7. Similarities: • Brazil: Cheapest • Costa Rica: FairTrade

8. Transport: • By ship: large cargo vessels with cooled areas where the pineapples are stored. • By plane: not used a lot because it costs lots of money • By haulage: cooled areas

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10. Cheese

11. Origin • In Pre-historic times it was discovered that when milk turns sour the white curd tastes good and keeps well • Cheese is a fermented milk product when milk is coagulated • Usually it is made from cow’s milk however there are many varieties

12. Why imported? • Different countries make different cheese with a different taste • So therefore imported to expand the cheese market. • Most countries produce cheese locally so import is limited.

13. From who? • Belgium: France, England, Germany, Italy, Greece, Switzerland • Norway: Italy, Denmark, Greece • Poland: France, England, Italy, Greece • Uk: France, Italy, Greece, Norway

15. Similarities: Country’s specialties are imported to get the original and unique taste into most markets.

16. Transport • Haulages: transported by cooled haulages • By ship: With large cooled areas • The cheese is covered with wax when transported to prevent extra mould or fungi growing.

17. Mushrooms

18. Origin • Discovered in 1650 • First edible mushrooms discovered in 1707 • Grew on melon horticultures of rotting melons

19. Why imported? • Most mushrooms available to buy in Iceland, Germany and Belgium are cultivated in their own country. • Other mushrooms are imported from different countries as we are unable to cultivate them. • Reasons for importing include: the climate and wide variety of mushrooms.

20. Examples of different types of mushrooms: Shii Take Oyster mushroom

21. From who? Germany • From Germany itself in Rechterfeld, by refrigerated trucks • From France, by refrigerated trucks • From The United Kingdom, by refrigerated containers on ship

22. Iceland • From Iceland itself, in Fludir, by refrigerated trucks • From The Netherlands, by flight • From Poland, by flight Belgium • From Belgium itself, in West Flandres and Limburg, by refrigerated trucks • From The Netherlands, by refrigerated trucks • From Poland, by refrigerated trucks

24. Fruit Juice

25. Why imported? • Because we can’t cultivate all kind of fruits in our countries, for instance • Oranges • grapes • pineapple • bananas • …

26. From Who? Germany • From Florida, by refrigerated containers on a ship • From Brazil, by refrigerated containers on a ship • From Germany itself, only apple juice Iceland • From Austria, by ship • From Italy, by ship • From Germany, by ship • From Denmark, by ship

27. Belgium • From Florida, by refrigerated containers on a ship • From Brazil, by refrigerated containers on a ship

29. Salmon

30. Where? • Salmon is a freshwater fish that is able to live in the sea as well. • When it’s breeding time they swim up the river to drop their eggs. • Salmons are only found North of the equator. • They only lay their eggs in cold, fast- streaming water. • Because nature can’t provide the salmon that is needed to supply the demand, so now salmons are bred in fish farms.

31. Why imported? • We import salmon because there isn’t any salmon in Belgium and Hungary. • Because our European climate is too warm. • Our rivers are too polluted.

32. From Who? • A big choice of salmon can be found in Norway, Scotland and Canada • It is transported by ship to the harbour of Antwerp. • Then it is moved by truck and haulage.

34. Pigs

35. Why imported? • Belgium, Hungary don’t import pigs or import only from their neighbours. • Belgium and Hungary have always been agricultural countries and had their own livestock keeping. So European countries export pigs to Asia and other countries.

36. From who? • From pig farms in West- Flanders. • In West- Flanders there live more pigs than there live people. • The main city in Hungary where pigs are bred is Pécs.

38. Mineral Water

39. Why imported? • In Belgium and Hungary we import mineral water because there are not enough natural springs to supply the demand for mineral water. • We can’t purify unhealthy water because that’s too expensive.

40. From who? • We have to import our water from regions near mountains or with lots of natural sources. • Belgium imports mineral water from France and Hungary from Poland or Italy. • The water is transported by truck to the local market and is mostly sold in glass or plastic bottles.

42. Conclusion • We produce our basic food in our own countries or we import it from other countries of Europe • Tropical food, or food we can’t cultivate ourselves, we import from non-European countries • Each country has a complex import and export system to supply the demand within that country

43. Brita Ramsevik Riksem Norway • Mehrnoush Rad UK • Thuridur Elisa HardardottirIceland • Michal Strzala Poland • Luca Butala Hungary • Konstantin Bünte Germany • Manu ChristiaensBelgium • Eveline Vandeputte Belgium • Laurent Cuvelier Belgium