SOSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Chemical Industry, Horizontal Integration, Antibiotics
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The food resources that we have is a key factors in helping to produce health. The better food we eat, the better the impact it is for our lives. Predominate discussion is about obesity overweight and the consequences for people"s health. Potential negative impact on our health due to poor food choices. The dramatic transformation on food production and consumption has altered our health. Transformations in farming (1) farming has become more large scale to the point where farms together are agriculture by. Agro-industrial complex and tncs (2) farms are growing single type of crops than a vast majority of fruits and vegetables. Mono-crop farming growing only one certain type of crop; no rotation of the crops; mono- approach are also used in animals; farmers used to mix crops but now they resemble industrial types of enterprises. Mono-crop findings started after wwii, there was a need to produce a larger economy of scale.