... Sustainable eating for health and humankind final report Food can become the instruction manual of our choices in becoming more healthy or to become a “junk food addict.” Still the food obtainable to us can be further harmful to us than good- both to our health, as well as to the health of the earth. Next, to the climate change which contributes to the extreme weather that loom protect food supply. “ For instance, the consumers , and the employees of the corporations, they make the decision about the foods being sold, which gives us the way to create, process, conveyance, and use foods. Also the United States as well as other countries, has a great deal of support from the government for commodity crop such as “wheat, corn, and soy production this also goes through the use of government subsidies. The government support for commodity crop has successfully made farmers ignore, more healthy crops; furthermore, a great deal of industrial crops grown here in the United States are being used for animal feed in “concentrated animal feeding operations ( CAFOs), also better known as factory farms.” With the support of the government the industrial crop production has increase in corn, as well as soy-fed animals, this also increased production for foods that use corn that is high fructose corn syrup; this ultimately contributing to the commonness of health problems for instance, heart disease, obesity as well as type 2 diabetes. This connection between food and our health is...
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...Everyone opinion about climate change is different, especially the methods to fight the changes .The articles, “Fight the climate change with diet change “ by a representative of the PETA organization and “It’s not enough to go vegetarian to fight climate change” by Richard Eckard, the Associate Professor and Director of Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre possesses slightly different opinion about veganism. Both of them agree that Vegan diet can help to fight the climate change but the article by Richard Eckard believes that becoming vegan can’t really help much, so people should try to find more solutions to the problem, and Eckard thinks that even if people want to adopt veganism, not everyone could enjoy the option to choose as...
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...rare and precious commodity. Others who enjoy access to an abundant food supply may take it for granted; in many parts of the world, consumers and food industries discard it in great quantities.4 Beyond its biological roles, food has deep social meaning; it can serve as a mark of culture, values or taste, a gathering point among communities or an opportunity to reinforce relationships.5,6 On a personal level, food and emotion are closely tied.7 Food may provide temporary relief from anxiety, depression, loneliness and boredom.7 Feelings of joy and other positive emotions may inspire healthier, more pleasurable eating experiences.7 These examples illustrate just a few of the ways that food is an integral part of human lives. We all experience food, if for no other reason than because we all consume it. Our relationship with food, however, extends far beyond the act of eating. Food takes a complex journey from its origins on farm fields, ranches, rivers, oceans and other sources to consumers’ plates. Along the way, it passes through the hands of producers (including farmers, ranchers and fishermen), processors, transporters, warehouse operators, retailers, consumers and waste handlers. The term food system or supply chain describes this series of interdependent links, including the people and resources involved at each stage. In this curriculum, we frequently refer to five major stages along the supply...
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...Who does really pay for our Burgers? Institutional Causes, Effects and Solutions to the Meat Industry’s Contribution to Global Warming WHO DOES REALLY PAY FOR OUR BURGERS? 1. Introduction ‘All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster’ (Obama, 2006). Global warming is one of the biggest threats to the environment and human well-being; today but even more for future generations. Global warming refers to the rise of the average temperature on earth. The greenhouse effect makes earth feasible for life. Without its protecting layer of several greenhouses gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, methane or nitrous oxide, the average temperature on earth would not be a life-sustaining fifteen degree centigrade but minus six degree (FAO, 2006). By trapping part of the infrared radiation which would have otherwise bounced back into the cosmos, greenhouse gases keep the warmth. Adding to an ancient natural level human GHG, emissions have increased the amount in the atmosphere of e.g. carbon dioxide and methane since the beginning of the industrial revolution by 36 and almost 150 % respectively with an increasing tendency (EPA, 2007). While scientific research...
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...ones each year) crowds the middle aisles, and in the freezer case you can find “home meal replacements” in every conceivable ethnic stripe, demanding nothing more of the eater than opening the package and waiting for the microwave to chirp. Considered in the long sweep of human history, in which getting food dominated not just daily life but economic and political life as well, having to worry about food as little as we do, or did, seems almost a kind of dream. The dream that the age-old “food problem” had been largely solved for most Americans was sustained by the tremendous postwar increases in the productivity of American farmers, made possible by cheap fossil fuel (the key ingredient in both chemical fertilizers and pesticides) and changes in agricultural policies. Asked by President Nixon to try to drive down the cost of food after it had spiked in...
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...FF FF F or Peor Pe or Peor Pe or Pe ople, Naople, Na ople, Naople, Na ople, Na tt tt t ure, and ure, and ure, and ure, and ure, and tt tt t he Ehe E he Ehe E he E cc cc c oo oo o nn nn n oo oo o mm mm m yy yy y 1. AGRICULTURE TAKES A BIG BITE: THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM After air and water, food is the most essential resource people require to sustain themselves. These resources are provided by the layer of interconnected life that covers our planet: the biosphere. Yet the way the food system provides food often severely damages the health of the biosphere through soil and aquifer depletion, deforestation, aggressive use of agrochemicals, fishery collapses, and the loss of biodiversity in crops, livestock, and wild species. The global food system has become such a dominant force shaping the surface of this planet and its ecosystems that we can no longer achieve sustainability without revamping the food system. At the same time sustainable food systems provide great hope for building a sustainable future—a future in which all can lead satisfying lives within the means of the biosphere. In this brief, we use Ecological Footprint analysis to document the current food system’s demand on the biosphere. Ecological Footprint accounts track the area of biologically productive land and water needed to produce the resources consumed by a given population and to absorb its waste. The Ecological Footprint...
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...After growing up with two sisters along with having two nephews that have devoted their lives to a non meat diet, vegetarianism has been very familiar to me. However, instead of continuing to give snug faces at my sister's newest plant based concoctions, I have finally decided to do research on the topic. After a plethora of person experience, I thought it would be best to learn about the controversial topic of vegetarianism, and explore the lifestyles positives and negatives. Through my research, I found a great deal of evidence for the dangers of vegetarianism. More importantly, this evidence came from very reputable and credible locations. Articles such as Becoming a Vegetarian, 6 Ways Being a Vegetarian Could Seriously Mess You Up,... offered me creditable insight about the dangers of a vegetarian...
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...business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Ray Kroc joined the company in 1955 as a franchise. A McDonald's restaurant is operated by either a franchisee, an affiliate or the corporation itself. McDonald's Corporation revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants. In 2012, McDonald's Corporation had annual revenues of $27.5 billion, and profits of $5.5 billion. Products: Macdonald’s primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken burgers, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes and deserts including ice-creams. Currently restaurant also expanded its menu to include salads, fish, wraps, smoothies and fruits in order to change the taste of the consumers. Company also serve soup in the Asian countries. The menu of the company differs according to the serving countries like prawn burger in Singapore. In Germany and western European countries MacDonald’s serve beer also. Operating countries: Macdonald’s corporation is one of the largest fast food selling company. It have 31,800 flagship restaurants serving nearly 68 million people in each day among the 119 countries worldwide. Mainly, company operated by franchisee, an affiliate or the corporation itself. Basically company is operated largely in America, Canada and European countries like U.K., Competitors: There are many fast food restaurant running currently in the market. However, Macdonald’s is one of...
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...Channel and Pricing Strategies Majesty Anderson, Yvonne Davis, Benjamin Holbert & Shawn Hicks Marketing 571 Judy Allen December 17, 2011 Kathy Kudler recently had a business meeting with a top distribution company in Italy that is well known for leading grocery value in sales. Selex a well known grocery distribution company would like to get into the franchising business. Selex is impressed with Kudler’s dominant positioning in Brazil and would like to market and franchise a café known for gourmet cuisines. Selex believes that an upscale café would cater to the market looking for more than just great coffee. According to Country Report on Grocery Retailers in Italy, consumers are likely to remain value-focused and will look to channels and retailers which can provide them with high quality and low-cost products in grocery and household essentials that can be easily obtained. Consumers are faced with shopping in more than one store to provide all items and services needed. Selex feels that with the Café and all the accommodations that Kudler will provide for customers that the Italian market will embrace a one stop grocery store. Pricing Pricing is vital to a company’s growth because it is the only element in the marketing mix that produces revenue. Determining the correct price of a product or service is a complex and difficult task, especially when conducting business in foreign countries. Kudler Foods has decided to accept Selex...
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...Land and Climate Area (sq. mi.): 2,988,902 Area (sq. km.): 7,741,220 Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It is just smaller than Brazil and about four-and-a-half times the size of the U.S. state of Alaska. Australia is the only country that occupies a complete continent. It is also the driest inhabited continent in the world. About one-third of its land is desert and another third is composed of poor-quality land. A long chain of mountains, the Great Dividing Range, runs along the Pacific coast. Fertile farmland lies east of the Great Dividing Range, in the southwestern corner of Western Australia, and in the island state of Tasmania. Cattle stations (ranches) reach the edge of the barren interior desert. The famed Australian Outback is an undefined region that encompasses all remote, undeveloped areas. The Outback is seen as a mystical heartland or frontier—a symbol of Australia's strength and independence—where the climate is hot, life is hard, and people are tough, independent, and few. CultureGramsTMWorld Edition 2015 | Commonwealth of Australia | BACKGROUND include the emu, cockatoo, and kookaburra. Australia's snakes are among the most venomous in the world. BACKGROUND include the emu, cockatoo, and kookaburra. Australia's snakes are among the most venomous in the world. Among Australia's natural wonders is the Great Barrier Reef, a system of coral reefs that extends more than 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) near Australia's northeast coast...
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...landscape that were identical except that the experimental group had a fence enclosed around it. Also, there was a predation relationship between the wildflowers and the kangaroo rats because the kangaroo rats eat wildflowers. Assuming that the fence was limiting the space of the experimental plot, competitive exclusion caused the extinction of the 4 other wild flowers. To begin, there was some interspecific competition, which happens when individuals of different species compete for a resource that limits their survival, between the 5 flower species in the experimental plot because they had their space limited to the fence that they were enclosed in. this competition was a density dependent factor in that the death rate rose when population density in the plot rose. Also, some of the specie’s ecological niches (like what nutrients they needed and how many branches would form) would have had to been the same or else they could coexist together. Then, one of the species of wildflower might have had a reproductive advantage like thorns to repel the kangaroo rats which would have allowed them to prosper and the other species to die out. This is the principle of competitive exclusion. On a tangent, the kangaroo rats would have learned to stay away from the wildflower with thorns by classical conditioning because they paired the idea of getting stung with eating that particular wildflower species and eventually stopped. The control plot, on the other hand, did not have a fence, so they...
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...EVOLUTION AND SELF-INTEREST Richard Dawkins argues that at its most fundamental level, the genetic level, life is self-interested.1 Genes do only one thing; they replicate themselves. These replicators reside in and are carried around by biological vehicles (trees, animals, humans, fungus, etc.). The resources that support these biological vehicles are finite, so the process of life has become a competition among genes to create vehicles that can successfully compete for limited resources and survive to pass on their genetic code. Dawkins coined the term ‘selfish gene’ to emphasize the single, focused object of a gene’s existence. What he means is that the sole purpose of a gene is to make copies of itself using the Darwinian selection process; very selfishly ignoring the consequences this pursuit may have on other living entities. Self-interest is a requirement for survival. This does not mean, of course, that animals and humans cannot be altruistic sometimes, in certain activities.2 It does mean that no living entity can survive for long if it is only purely altruistic. On the other hand, survival is not necessarily jeopardized when an organism is purely self-interested. Altruism, in the absence of self-interest, is not evolutionarily stable in the biological world; it leads to extinction. It is for this reason that all extant life forms must be selfish. Humans, like all creatures, are self-interested; not because it is good to be selfish but because we would not be here if...
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...Petro Dollars Guidelines For Doing Business in the UAE Prepared for: Mrs. Margaret Blue University of Southern Mississippi IT 380 Organizational Communications Prepared by Roy Gasaway April 1, 2014 TO: Margaret Blue FROM: Roy Gasaway DATE: April 1, 2014 SUBJECT: Guidelines For Doing Business in The United Arab Emirates Here is the report you sanctioned on doing business in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). UAE is a well-established logistics hub providing access to markets in the Gulf, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Indian Subcontinent and the rest of Asia. The local emirate government closely parallels the federal government construct. A member of the ruling family constitutes the executive. Executing the directives of the executive are various ministries and other departments. The ministries and other departments, together with governmental agencies constitute the emirates governing bodies. This federal system of governance has provided for a stable political environment granting an attractive destination for international investment. Thank you for the opportunity to prepare this report. If I can provide additional help on our quest to bring our business to the UAE, please contact me. Attachment Executive Summary The UAE is one of the fastest growing markets in the Middle East. Peaceful and prosperous, the UAE offers businesses unlimited business opportunities in a diverse open economy. Located...
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...of Agriculture stated that in Carlton, St. Louis and Douglas counties farming is one of the largest family-owned, small business sectors of the local economy. Farmers in these three counties sold $27.7 million of livestock and crops in 2007. Cattle and dairies are the most important component in our region with $17.3 million of total sales. They reported a potential to increase productivity here. About one third of the farmland in this region was fertilized or had manure applied in 2007, and hay fields averaged about 1.5 tons per acre. Nationwide, more than two thirds of cropland was fertilized (although that includes row crops) and hay fields were about 2.5 tons per acre – even in other parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, with a similar climate. Farming is one of the bigger sources of income for self-employed business owners in this region. In Carlton County, for example, farmers sold $8 million of produce in 2007. Only self-employed construction firms, with $14 million of sales, and real estate, with $8.2 million in sales, were larger. It’s likely that agriculture in regions like the Northland will be even more important in the future. The United States currently has an abundance of cropland – about 1.4 acres per person in 2007. But that’s down about 10 percent since 1997, and our population continues to grow. The U. S. Census Bureau projects a population of 439 million people in 2050, leaving only one acre of cropland per person – even if none of our current cropland is converted...
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...World Countries I. Introduction At a broad level, globalization is an increase in the impact on human activities of forces that span national boundaries. These activities can be economic, social, cultural, political, technological, or even biological, as in the case of disease. Additionally, all of these realms are connected through capitalism. Globalization, as defined by McMichael is “integration on the basis of a project pursuing "market rule on a global scale.” Under McMichael’s definition of capitalism, the availability of food is becoming a major issue. And that is driven by a number of factors. Both the ability to grow enough food especially under a changing climate, as well as increases in population and greater demand for food from an increasing discerning population that wants more meat in their diet. This is driving up demand for food and that is basically pushing up prices which not only affects the ability to buy the diversity of food that we want to eat, but it particularly affects people in the developing world for whom food is a major cost in their finances. The evolution of food production plays a big role in its current role in the capitalist economy. Farmers no longer produce food for others to eat, but rather, corporations produce food as something for people to buy. Food is a commodity. And they will only produce what people will buy. More of the best land is being used to produce commodities that have a large market, but that are slightly nutritious...
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