The Food Industry, Food Sector, Food Trade are a topic that in the United States economy is so essential and important to the all the activities we do in a daily basis. As we can see we are a nation that we are consumers by nature, and with the food industry, food sector and food trade is what gives the country the chance of growing as an economy to meet we the nutrition needed to sustain such a large population of individuals. In fact we can seemed to understand that food is not only very important, but does help’s us understand how it is grown, processed, and transported this helping us understand how the system works as a whole. Then we can describe the Food Industry seems to be made …show more content…
A statement about this results are how the all of the United States and the global food processing and even some other type of industry such as the beverage are dominated by a monopoly of powerful multinational corporations. Some of this industries are the ones that make the choices of what can be distributed and it is a large influence on the large percentage amount of the food consume by the majority of people. Most of them are chains such as McDonalds, Pizza Hut, KFC and Subway even as the chain known as Subway can be appeared to be a healthy alternative to most people. But it still has large amount of influence such as this other companies it which are known for their not so healthy standards which eventually lead to obesity. Even with them only about being not so many of this companies in the year 2008 their total revenue generated exceeded for $127 billion dollars which was higher than the total frozen foods revenue, this can show the results how all the food industry wants is to achieve economic success focusing on the saving of energy and ensure the a better performance for the …show more content…
But with the social and economic alternatives and some of the effects are different they are more closely related than other’s. This can show how we are relating with the issues of the distribution and the economics behind food in the United States. This can show how we are dealing with an overview of the social and economic impacts of the food system on key sectors of the food system. The information gathered has focused on how the market-based economic effects even those with the changes which can measure in the financial success leads to some key factors in the food system and larger determinant of market performance by sector for example output, efficiency, but it did not work to estimate non-market economic values for social impacts. Although an argument with the non-market valuation methods for environmental effects can be shown by this group which want the best for the people in