Sentences with phrase «eat up the food chain»

As the human species heads toward 9 billion in the next few decades, with a tendency to eat up the food chain as prosperity rises, is there any prospect of sustaining yields of seafood, whether wild - caught or farmed?

«I think one of the best things we can do with the GDAX product is slowly eat up the food chain,» he said, going on to liken Coinbase as a the Fidelity of cryptocurrencies and GDAX as a sort of New York Stock Exchange.

Not exact matches

KFC restaurants make up the bulk of Priszm's franchises, and the fast - food chain has struggled to adapt to healthier eating trends.

The store's numbers haven't been pretty either: Same - store sales growth last quarter was at its lowest level since 2009, a fact blamed in part on the New York City investigation and on the longer - term concern that it is facing stiff competition in the healthy - eating ethos up and down the grocery food chain — from Kroger (KR) and Walmart (WMT) to Trader Joe's and Sprouts (SFM).

It is food and eaten, all up and down the chain.

As the food chain progresses, big fish eats little fish et cetera, the bigger fish end up consuming all of those chemicals and fish like tuna and salmon end up ridden with them.

If you're new to eating out with kids, consider working your way gradually up the food chain by practicing good behavior in a basic burger joint, where manners matter less to those around you.

As these elements are increasingly depleted everywhere to the north, phytoplankton populations decline and scarcity reverberates up through the food chain, ultimately affecting the fish that humans catch and eat.

This toxic compound accumulates up the aquatic food chain and is often concentrated at high levels in fish, shellfish and marine mammals — and ultimately in the people who eat them.

These pollutants bioaccumulate in the tissues of marine organisms, biomagnify up the food chain, and find their way into the foods we eat.»

When animals eat the plastic, that poison could be going into the fish and traveling up the food chain to market species like tuna or swordfish.

The extinct Neandertals, who lived from about 230,000 to 30,000 years ago, have long been portrayed as uber - carnivores — humans at the top of the food chain who ate mostly meat to fuel their revved - up metabolisms in order to survive in the frigid climes of northern Europe and Asia.

After being absorbed by plankton, the mercury moves up the food chain: The plankton is eaten by small fish, which are then gobbled up by larger predators, each bigger animal accumulating more mercury with every meal.

The problems could run all the way up the food chain: Reduce the menu for one animal, and you've reduced the menu for other animals, as well (fewer sea butterflies means hard times for the animals that eat sea butterflies).

That plastic can then move up the food chain as seabirds, seals and other marine predators eat those fish.

Not only are we (as a society) eating 67 % of our total calories from corn, soy, and wheat... but because of the economics involved (specifically with cheap corn and soy) we are also feeding most of our farm animals corn and soy now too... again amplifying the amount of corn and soy that passes through the food chain and (from a biochemical standpoint) ends up in our bodies.

It's also possible that we can no longer eat as they might of since such foods may no longer be available or polluted in which case we eat higher up on the food chain at our own risk.

Because krill are found in the deep, clean waters of the Antarctic, because they're at the bottom of the food chain and eat primarily phytoplankton and zooplankton, and because they have a short lifespan, they simply don't accumulate the heavy metals, pesticides and toxins that other fish that live farther up the food chain do.

Because fish are a couple steps up on the food chain, they take on not only toxins from the water, but from the small animals they eat for food.

Carbon - 14 moves up the food chain as animals eat plants and as predators eat other animals..

His goal: shake - up the food chain and «eat something with a face.»

On the other, as their stomachs are so small, the plastic ingested by them doesn't leave, presenting the risk that potential toxics from plastics build up in the food chain as they get eaten by larger fish.

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As larger animals eat these organisms, algal toxins get passed up the food chain.

The researchers also intend to follow the plastic - eating worms up the food chain, and study the health of animals that prey on Styrofoam - munching mealworms.

The amount of meat we eat goes up, and it's usually working your way up the food chain toward the most energy intense, water intense, land intense sources of food — beef, at the top of the chain, or bluefin tuna at the top of the ocean chain.

Studies have shown health problems among plankton and other small organisms that eat microfibers, which then make their way up the food chain.»

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The «wild» bugs don't get the wastes, the critters that eat the wild bugs see their food supply dwindle, and so on up the chain.