ANS 3934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Food Storage, Organic Food, Agritourism
11 Dec 2016
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Organic food production is the fastest growing sector of the u. s. food industry. A new consumer dynamic wants to know: where food comes from, what has gone into the food. Main ideology is take care of the land and herd, and they will take care of you. Timeline of evolution: got rid of pens in 1995, got rid of herbicides and pesticides in 2007, added sheep to the grazing model, abandoning monoculture, in 2008, added poultry in 2010. White oak is currently the largest organic livestock farm in georgia. Considered to be a zero waste facility: unsellable products, such as heads, hides and feet, are turned into biofuel. Agritourism is an increasing part of the business: visitors want to see where their food comes from. Growing sector of the company is shipping frozen meats and vegetables around the country from online sales. Local food movement aims to get the food industry to: decentralization, decommoditization, deindustrialization.
