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…
up of complex activities in order to supply with the food needed by the people for consumption, since it appears that even food’s that can be made instantly can also be added to the food supply as a complete chain of network's.
An example of this trend can be how in the middle of the year 2000s the food industry as a chain was considered to account for about 1.5 million jobs in the United States alone. But the only negative factor in this numbers was how the number of farmers which were able to produce an sufficient amount of food, seem not to be added to the numbers by the food industry because they labeled them as it was made for self-consumption. But even so with the different type of components the food industry has it can be said this chain is very specialized and is very diverse , some of the components are the basic one they are: Agricultural activities for growing crops, raising livestock and sea food, with this comes food processing of fresh products into canned and packed goods, including frozen foods. This can appear with research done in order to increase the effectivity of the food technology with it inclusion the manufacturing fertilizers, with some farm machinery and hybrid seeds to make it easier for the growing of agriculture, but the regulation on food production and distribution to ensure the type of quality the product ends up with make it for safe for consumption. This will include financial services including insurance and credit to facilitate food production and distribution. Finally finishing with the Marketing, packaging, advertising and distribution of all (wholesale and retail) products. Then with this topic we can start with the history of trade foods this started over quite some centuries ago, but this was mainly changed as whole when in the early 1950s when a TV diner was first aired on television. And even though it took quite some time to get where it wanted to be the trading of food has made some quite significant changes over history it can be looked at when the Sterilization and the pasteurization of the first animals. This began with it also starting the first available forms of canned food, this continues in the 1940s with frozen foods, 1960s with freeze-dried pressure cooked foods, 1980s microwave foods, and finally the most present evolve form is the induction of foods. Though as we change as an economy changes they are always number of factors that can make the demand for products not only in the U.S Global Market, but as the competition in the global markets with it demonstrating the potential customers they can be involve with.
The main influence just like any source of big business it can show how it needs its big players that are influencing and making the decisions in order to make the system to work in a more functional way.
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…
environment. Under those circumstances this has led to a very drastic change in the United States as a corrupted system because it can be shown with numbers Food Insecurity is a major challenge in the lives of Americans. In 2009 more than 10 percent of the people in the United States lived in a home with food insecurity this can show, since the year 2007 this percentage had increase 1/3 from the standards that were in those years this has led to a big concern by the leaders . As which had done research on how overall the this can result to the negative result in health issues, because if people are not getting the amount needed to be able to live properly this would increase the amount needed to just work , instead of just basically just getting the amount needed for food though the uneven food distribution with the taking over of multinational corporations has made some severe results in the way the system works in the United States it is just affecting each and every single person in the country. Since it has being research how the food insecurity in the country might seem that it is not a big issue, but in the long run with the high amount consumption of unhealthy foods and lack of appropriate foods with prices that can match what the fast- food establishments are doing this would lead to several health issues which as of today are affecting a very large part of our society with this making us spend more money on health care instead of finding alternative foods at the right price.
The main goal of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, more known as food stamp are to inform people on what can be done to stop the epidemic of uneven distribution of foods they would most likely like be able to consume without dealing with the consequences.
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
society.
In addition, it has been classified the importance of obtaining information of different type of impacts on distinct social groups such as women, minorities, immigrants, group of individuals determining this problem regards met with the moral and ethical or legal aspects of different outcomes for the distribution of food’s in the entire nation. The main consideration of the different types of social and economic effects are superior than others should be led by the best