When you eat a meal, do you ever wonder what has had to happen to make it, and how it has come from field to plate? In this article I hope to discover more about the food we eat.

Did you know that a huge 34 litres of water has to be used to make ten grams of rice? This huge amount of water going into food growth draws down heavily on global water supplies.

Also, if you do not live in the country in which the rice is being grown in, you could effectively be causing a drought in another country, as their water goes into growing food to feed you, rather than to the people who are dying of thirst. More >