Jim Rice sat in the back seat of a black Mercedes S-class as it drove the streets of Handan. He referred to the city‚ roughly 450 KM south of Beijing‚ as “a small Chinese town of 8.9 million people”. While it wasn’t part of his immediate plans‚ Rice was here to form the ties necessary to set up a future poultry operation. Beside him sat the Vice Mayor for agriculture‚ his chaperone on a tour of the city designed to showcase the quality of its land and its animal husbandry practices. Looking ahead
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David Kenner’s Food‚ Inc. reveals the dark‚ corporate underside of America’s food industry that nobody seems to be talking about. The documentary opens with the image of the quintessential American farm‚ deemed the “pastoral fantasy.” Using a voiceover the narrator takes us to various aisles in the super market‚ explaining how the food industry has revolutionized over the years (boneless meat‚ assembly lines‚ food items no longer being seasonal) but more importantly introduces the costs of this transformed
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The food stamp project was established in the 1930’s in response to the great depression. It was later terminated "since the conditions that brought the program into being--unmarketable food surpluses and widespread unemployment--no longer existed" (Short History‚ 2014). A food assistance program was reinstated by executive order based on a campaign promise from president Kennedy. Among the official purposes of the Food Stamp Act of 1964 were strengthening the agricultural economy and providing
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Food Industry We have all heard the phrase “What you don’t know won’t hurt you” and it has undoubtedly applied to many situations in our lives that we are still unaware of. We like to toss around this phrase without worrying too much about what it implies because that is the whole point of the phrase‚ not to worry. When it comes to what we are putting into our bodies‚ though‚ what we do not know can indeed hurt us immensely. In the United States‚ we have grown accustomed to not thinking much about
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Analysis of Kudler Fine Foods Tracey Laverty University of Phoenix IT/235 Dr. Louay Chebib Image and presentation are two key elements to a company’s success. If a company does not present itself in a visually appealing way‚ the likelihood of its success is lower. However‚ the same can be said about offering a client too many images. There is a delicate balance that must be maintained between image and client. If a company is brand new to the business world‚ the want
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Organic Farming or Factory Farming? In the documentary‚ Food Inc.‚ director Robert Kenner reveals the truth of factory farming and organic farming. In the film‚ he interviews an organic farmer‚ Joel Salatin‚ who owns Poly Face Farm‚ in Swoope‚ Virginia. Salatin believes that animals should be fed with grass instead of corn. Corn is a natural resource that both the factory farm and organic farm uses. Factory farming use corn because it is cheap‚ easy to grow‚ and makes the animals fat very fast
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today’s food industries. While looking at authors like Michael Pollan‚ Tracie McMillan‚ and Joel Salatin and their respective works‚ we’ve seen the food industry’s process from harvest all the way to its distribution‚ and the many issues processed foods have caused. After taking this course‚ if there was one thing I could change about the American food supply would be processed foods in general. I believe our nation‚ as well as the world‚ would be entirely better off without processed foods in our
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Consumer’s Don’t Know About Their Food? "The way we eat has changed more dramatically in the past 50 years than in the previous 10‚000 years." Food‚ Inc. is a documentary film directed by Robert Kenner in 2008. In the film it’s pointed out that one of the important changes in what we eat is that our food supply has been flooded with sugar and other refined carbohydrates. "Food‚ Inc." is about how these and other changes came to be‚ and the little-known state of our present food system. This film has multiple
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Food Inc. Food Inc.‚ a 2008 documentary film directed and produced by Robert Kenner‚ exposes the secrets about how food is processed. Robert Kenner is famous for exposing facts and controversies that are rarely discussed. He is also known for his authenticity and his desire to reveal the truth. Kenner has received several awards for his films. Food Inc. even influenced some food policy decisions. His documentary‚ Food Inc.‚ talks about the industrialization of the food system in America. The documentary
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Community Food Banks Section One: Evaluation of Service and Learning Cheryl Oberholser and Cynthia Tuttle‚ authors of “Assessment of Household Food Security Among Food Stamp Recipient Families in Maryland‚” assessed the relationship between food security status and various sociodemographic characteristics among households that include children and that receive food stamps. Based on the survey they conducted‚ the authors found 34% of respondents reported they "sometimes did not have enough food to eat
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