Year 9 Food Technology

New Zealand has become a more multi-cultural place to live in the last 5 years, with many other nationalities calling New Zealand home; they bring with them different cultural and religious beliefs, new recipes and eating habits and different views and preferences when it comes to eating meat. The project for this term is to shed new light on, what has traditionally been, a very heavy meat-focused diet in New Zealand. You will be looking at creating healthy, tasty, meat-free dishes for everyone and look at why people choose to be vegetarian and what constitutes being Vegetarian.

Being a Vegetarian or eating plant based is a decision which people make for many reasons. The cost to produce meat is ever increasing, both finically and sustainably. In order to be more environmentally friendly, the earth's populations are going to need to look at other ways of feeding themselves. There are many types of vegetarians and more and more teenagers, and their families, are making the decision to become vegetarian. This could be due to health reasons, financial costs of meat, cultural or religious beliefs or simply down to own personal preferences.