Food adulteration Adulteration is the act of making any commodity impure by mixture of other ingredients. This mixture may corrupt the nature of the original to the extent of destroying its identity‚ or it may merely lower the value or effectiveness of the finished product. Adulteration of foods and beverages has been performed with the same aim—increasing profits for the manufacturer or merchant—since early times‚ when laws in ancient Greece and Rome addressed the coloring and flavoring of wine
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FOOD WASTE Fresh vegetables‚ ready-to-cook meals‚ and cheap meat is what a modern consumer’s supposed grocery list comprises of! Dump it all into your fridge full of deals‚ discount offers and feel happy. This is how the shop keeper gets a loyal customer. At the end o the story‚ it’s the food industry’s creed that the customer is always right….. If food became it s own pungent country‚ it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to climatic changes. According to United Nations Food and Agriculture
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Abstract Most of the time when we go to the grocery store and pick out our food‚ we aren’t thinking about the type of packing our food in contained in. We’ve become so accustomed to watching the label and expiration dates of a product that some people put as much faith into it as the look of the food itself. Heck‚ you can’t even look at some food until you get it home and open it. However‚ most types of food in that opaque packaging generally have a wide berth of days between when you pick it
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achievable unless adequate amounts of nutritious and safe foods are available and accessible during all life stages. An estimated one-third of the world’s population‚ largely in the developing world‚ is currently food and nutrition insecure. The biologic imperatives for achieving nutrient and food security‚ as well as humanitarian concern‚ are the driving forces behind efforts to achieve equitable food distribution among today’s global population. Food systems‚ therefore‚ are challenged to meet current
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Food Miles A food mile is the distance food travels from the farm to the store where you buy it‚ and these miles are costly to the environment. They are among the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. The concept of food miles started in the early 1990’s in the United Kingdom .The more the food miles that are attached to a particular food‚ the less sustainable and the less environmentally the food is desired. Professor Tim Lang at the Sustainable Agriculture Food and Environment
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The ways in which the food system is failing us are numerous. It is failing some in quantity‚ while failing others in quality. The only members of the food system that are not being exploited are the corporate food producers‚ and that is because they are the exploiters in this equation. Just like the schoolyard that we are all familiar with‚ there are two groups on the food system playground; the bullied and the bullies. In comparison to the schoolyard example‚ the bullies are in the minority‚
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FOOD WASTAGE Food waste or food loss is food material that is discarded or unable to be used. Various political organisations and entities have their own definition of what constitutes food waste. The causes of wasted food are numerous‚ and occur at the stages of production‚ processing‚ and retailing. As of 2011‚ 1.3 billion tons of food‚ about one third of the global food production‚ are lost or wasted annually.[1] Loss and wastage occurs on all steps in the food . In low-income countries‚ most
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Food Shortage. Lester Brown addresses this issue on chapter nine of his book Plan B. He tries to explain what can be done to sufficiently feed a world with a population of 8 billion persons. He gives an example of China’s way of increasing its food production and how in just about a decade‚ china was able to have enough food to feed hundreds of millions of people who were starving. China became self-sufficient in food production and in 2005 was able to manage its hungry population and she not
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Cited: 1. "Agriculture and Food Security | World Economic Forum - Agriculture and Food Security." Agriculture and Food Security. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. 2. "Compost." Organics South Africa. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. 3. "CSIRO." Facing Africa ’s Food Security Challenges. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. 4. Devereux‚ Stephen‚ and Simon Maxwell. Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: ITDG‚ 2001. Print. 5. "Economist Intelligence Unit." Global Food Security Index. N.p.‚ n.d. Web
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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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