Engaging with Controversies in the Food System

Become more confident in making informed decisions about the food you eat by exploring different food controversies.

Duration: 3 weeks

Weekly duration: 3 hours

Location: 100% online

Price: This course is free for 3 weeks, from the moment you start.

Course soon available

Overview: Engaging with Controversies in the Food System

About
Structure & Modules
Partners

JOIN NOW

About : Learn how to assess the reliability of different sources of food information.

Consumers have never been confronted with so much food choice. Making a decision on what food to eat is affected by many factors, including media reports, diet research findings, and social media.

On this course, you’ll access leading research and expert insights to make sense of some of the most common food controversies - alternative proteins, palm oil, and probiotics.

You’ll understand the viewpoints of stakeholders and reflect on your own food preferences. By improving your knowledge of these food debates, you’ll build the confidence to make more informed decisions about food.

This course is for anyone curious about what their food contains, and what this means for their health and the environment. Professionals in the food and environment sectors will find this course useful for providing an up to date analysis of topical debates. Teachers may also find this course a useful resource for their students studying food science subjects.

Advantages :

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge of three topical food controversies that affect human health, welfare and the environment
Reflect on your own food preferences and make better informed decisions about which products to buy for yourself and your family
Justify your choices and engage others, contributing to improvements in industry practice and an overall better understanding of the food system amongst consumers
Interpret news reports, apply critical thinking and be proficient at analysing media coverage of food controversies
Reflect on the perspectives of different stakeholders and recognise the myriad challenges and trade-offs such a complex system creates