Food Waste? Too valuable to waste! According to statistics from the Environmental Protection Department‚ in Hong Kong‚ solid waste generated daily weighs around 17000 tones‚ of which around 30% is organic matter (2700 tones) which is roughly equal to 120 double-deck buses in size. Compared this to the US where‚ revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency‚ only 12% of waste stream was scrap of food in 2005. Extra care in disposal is required for these putrescible wastes‚ otherwise nuisance
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Journals Full Length Research Paper Food safety regulations: reducing the risk of foodborne diseases in rural communities of Abia state‚ Nigeria G.E. Ifenkwe Department of Rural Sociology and Extension‚ Michael Okpara University of Agriculture‚ Umudike‚ Abia State‚ Nigeria. E-mail:godwinifenkwe@yahoo.com Abstract Most kitchens‚ grocery stores and catering houses‚ especially those in rural communities‚ will fail abysmally if subjected to hygiene and food safety tests. This is in terms of meals/drinks
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Healthy foods vs. not healthy foods ENG121 Tina Santino September 10‚ 2012 Eating is something that we all have to do to stay alive and we do it at least three times a day. We live in a world where there are so many choices and no one but ourselves are responsible for the
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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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Today‚ many people eat fast food instead of home made food. The reason is that fast food is fast‚ cheap and convenient. However‚ at the same time‚ fast food is contributing to a big social problem in the U.S.‚ which is obesity‚ and recently some people are beginning to sue the fast food companies for causing their obesity. Should the fast food companies have responsibility for American’s obesity? My answer for this argument is "No". I think that whether people eat fast food or not is an individual choice
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mineral‚ fat‚ carbohydrate‚ dietary fiber‚ and water intake plays a key role in human health. Over these few weeks I’ve spent in my human nutrition class‚ I’ve learned more about my personal diet and nutrition habits and how to become more aware on the food and diet choices I make. In this essay I will be discussing various findings about my diet intake as well as problems I may potentially face and possible corrections I can take. My Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measurement of total fat in my body based
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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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Modern Diet Paper MyPyramid was released in 2005 with the intention of guiding people on how much of each food group they should consume each day. The varying sizes of vertical stripes on the pyramid indicate which food group should be consumed more than the others—grains make up the largest section while the oils group is the smallest. Vegetables‚ fruits‚ milk‚ and meat and beans make up the rest of the pyramid. Moreover‚ there is a stick figure running up the side of the pyramid to indicate that
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Are Organic Foods All They Are Hyped Up To Be: An Overview Of The Organic Food Industry Today‚ with cancer and obesity cases increasing quickly‚ people are turning their attention to the foods they are consuming. Such diets as the vegan‚ vegetarian‚ lacto-vegetarian‚ paleo‚ raw‚ and locavore are becoming more and more popular. The one thing these diets all have in common is the belief that organic foods are better than conventional foods. Similar to conventional foods‚ organic foods contain chemicals
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social and habitual life. Every year we read sad stories of how animals have been treated badly even resulting in their death in some cases. Another sad situation is the long-haul transport of animals even between countries. The killing of animals for food is almost unnecessary today in terms of human nutrition. From a nutritional point of view‚ vegetable proteins - particularly legume proteins - are as good as animal proteins if composed in correct proportions. Only pregnant and ovulating women occasionally
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