FNS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Food Desert, Food Contaminant, Horizontal Integration
4 Feb 2018
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Fns250 class 2: health crisis epidemic of obesity and other diet related diseases (cancers, cvd, stroke, diabetes, food crisis outbreaks of fi, food contamination, volatile food prices, food deserts, droughts and water shortages, soil depletion. Food desert area without access to food. Who benefits from the industrial food system: the 10-large food and beverage companies that own many sub companies, which own more companies with a billion market value, even control many organic brands. Sustainability of the industrial model of agriculture: food production, human health and welfare, and the state of worlds natural resources are connected, unsustainable use of renewable resources naturally renovate themselves such as groundwater and soil. Natural resources & food systems facts and impacts: water, soil, pesticides, carbon, antibiotics, and biodiversity. Water: facts, usa agriculture as source of pollution on 48% rivers/streams and 41% lakes, silt, runoff of pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals a well as nitrogen and phosphorous in animal waste limit the quality.
