GGR107H1 Chapter Notes -Corn Syrup, Food Regimes, Animal Welfare
Document Summary
Food regimes: post modern: change from storage to just in time (jit) Have gone from less land to too much (what to do?: corn syrup. King cork issue & evid: testimonial, academic, corn representative. Connection btwn production to consumption (idea of course) Suppliers producers (farmers) wholesalers processors retailers . Consumer: suppliers seed sellers & fertilizer & pestic, producers farmers, wholesalers distributer = aggregate (sell collected item for more price) Or connection group that have tech, transp: processors. Point: hard to find all players in food chain. Diff from fresh food: abattoir (slaughterhouse, smokery, personal. Global commodity chain: coffee beans come from elsewhere, plastic frm somewhere else vs. Conventional: some chains have more players than others (can coffee has lesser than many) Cost: focus for increased efficiency, sometimes business don"t care abt cost to cater to market (have loyal fan base) Predictability: retailers (most) want to be recognized through consistency, nature doesn"t contribute to predictability in food chain.
