WHAT IS FOOD? * Food is any substance that can be consumed‚ including liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals‚ and is usually of animal or plant origin. WHAT IS ADULTERATION? * “Adulteration” according to Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1996) means "debasing something or rendering it impure by mixing it with something inferior or harmful." WHAT IS FOOD ADULTERATION? * Food adulteration is the act of adding or mixing something
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Many Americans consume food at an alarming rate without even stopping to think of what they really might be eating or how it ended up on their plate. If we just took the time to see how our food systems worked‚ we would notice the domino affect trickling down from government to average day Americans. In order for us to be able to grow and produce food‚ farmers are paid by our government in the form of subsidies. These crops often times do not grow naturally from the ground. Chemicals are pumped into
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Pei Ting Peggie Introduction The 21st century has presented a major set of converging threats as the pressures of population growth‚ climate change and food insecurity are driving the world towards worsening hunger and malnutrition. Many people argue that Genetically Modified (GM) crops are promoted as a ‘Miracle Solution’ to solve the food shortage crisis since the use of genetic engineering enables genetic materials to be modified and in turn creates new varieties that exhibit desirable characteristics
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The food industry and how food is processed has changed dramatically over the past fifty plus years. The food industry is longer run by farmers. It is now operated more like an industry in a factory setting. Foods like chicken and beef are now produced in massive quantities from enormous assembly lines. The popularity of fast food brought the factory system into the food processing industry. McDonalds was the first restaurant to incorporate this system. Due to the demand for more food‚ the demand
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February 2013 Processed Foods What ’s wrong with the modern American diet? Is American society heading towards a future filled with obesity‚ heart problems and an unhealthy youth? When processed foods account for about 70 percent of American caloric intake‚ ( Rehm) it definitely begs the question of whether these types of foods are helping or hindering our society. These two articles written by the New York Times discuss in greater detail the ins and outs of how processed foods are effecting The US
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Pepsi? Chocolate or Vanilla? Conventional food or Organic food? Wait‚ what? It’s easy for us to form answers from our own opinions‚ but not from scientific research. Your best friend might love Pepsi‚ but you could be an adamant supporter of Coke. There is no true evidence that chocolate is better than vanilla. The same applies to food. No one can prove scientifically that organic food is better than conventional food. That’s not to say that regular food is unhealthier or worse for us‚ it just has
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ABSTRACT Food security means to create a condition where enough food is ensured to meet the dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. But‚ the fact is that About 24‚000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes which testify to global food insecurity. Global food crisis is the external reason of food crisis in Bangladesh. There are many more domestic reasons. Over the last three decades rice and wheat production in Bangladesh increased more than double. But‚ as the demand
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profits. Corporate greed does explain the state of the food industry and the poor health of an increasing percentage of Americans more than any other issue. Companies are always trying to make as much money while spending the least amount possible. This became a major just in the mid to late 1900s when the meat industry began to cut back on their expenses to increase profit. The Iowa Beef Packers start the change in the meat packing industry. They began moving their slaughter houses away from the
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Food‚ Inc. is one means by which the American food economic system is analyzed. This documentary film shows how American food economic system follows the idea of capitalism and how it affects the food industry. Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market. A free market economy is based on supply and demand with little or
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British Food Journal Biographies and geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods Ian Cook Philip Crang Mark Thorpe Article information: To cite this document: Ian Cook Philip Crang Mark Thorpe‚ (1998)‚"Biographies and geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods"‚ British Food Journal‚ Vol. 100 Iss 3 pp. 162 - 167 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00070709810207522 Downloaded on: 08 March 2015‚ At: 12:54 (PT) References: this document contains
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