Sentences with phrase «end of the food chain»

Among retail markets, supermarkets have important roles in food chains since they are located close to the end of the food chain.

Their concerns include the need to review the way that the various industry bodies do or do not serve farmers» interests, and an investigation into the other restrictive practices that are crippling their end of the food chain.

So far researchers had assumed that the ecosystems gradually recovered from this catastrophe over a long stretch of eight to nine million years and that large predators at the uppermost end of the food chain were the last to reappear.

From this point in time fish and for the first time reptiles like, for instance, Askeptosaurus were at the uppermost end of the food chains.

On the lower end of the food chain, some monsters have many weaknesses, meaning it's not overly important to plan your loadout or put a lot of care into your approach.

Both films are about media corruption, with Buscemi playing journalists at opposite ends of the food chain.

Or will we end up at the lower end of the food chain?

At the opposite end of the food chain are waiters...

Since the early 1980s, the production of phytoplankton, a crucial creature at the lower end of the food chain, has declined 6 percent, with 70 percent of the decline found in the northern parts of the oceans.

:: - Since the early 1980s, the production of phytoplankton, a crucial creature at the lower end of the food chain, has declined 6 percent, with 70 percent of the decline found in the northern parts of the oceans.

Regrettably, as a trainee you are generally at the lower end of the food chain.

Not exact matches

2014 may be the end of pizza chains as we know them, as veteran fast - food chains like Domino's and Pizza Hut attempt to compete with fast - casual rookies by upping their quality and atmosphere.

That's part of why Schultz is leaving the CEO post to focus on the company's new Reserve chain of stores, a higher - end brand based on the Starbucks Reserve Roastery that will sell specialty coffees and upscale food.

Also, that does not address the fact that you would need 5 times the water on the planet to flood thae earth to the level the myth says, Noah could not have built a watyer tight craft using the stone tools he would have had at that time, the salinity of the oceans would change enough to kill all life in the oceans, so that would end the food chains, ending all life for a very long time.

Bühler is set to unveil groundbreaking digital technologies that include minimising toxic contamination, reducing food waste and increasing end - product quality across the whole food value chain as part of a new partnership with Microsoft.

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.

«The product evolved to provide a full - featured, end - to - end solution that addresses all areas of the food and beverage supply chain,» President Joey Benadretti says.

The rest of the company's production is sold through farmers» markets, to walk - in customers, and wholesale to high - end restaurants, country clubs, and a local chain of 18 natural food stores called Earth Fare.

Cracker Barrel is one of nearly 60 major food companies that has pledged to end gestation crate usage in their supply chains, with McDonald's, Costco, Oscar Mayer, and dozens of others putting similar requirements on their suppliers.

In contrast, Western industrialized nations such as Germany experience food waste predominantly at the end of the food value chain — especially in consumers» homes.

In Australia, we can engage with charity organisations such as OzHarvest, to ensure excess food at the retail and consumption end of the supply chain is utilised; or shopping with a list to limit impulse buys and food spoiling in the fridge.

«With the evolution of the food supply chain, software and technology providers are playing a more critical role in addressing needs such as end - to - end visibility and collaboration, traceability, regulatory compliance, risk management, sustainability, and cost containment,» said Lara L. Sowinski, editor - in - chief of Food Logistfood supply chain, software and technology providers are playing a more critical role in addressing needs such as end - to - end visibility and collaboration, traceability, regulatory compliance, risk management, sustainability, and cost containment,» said Lara L. Sowinski, editor - in - chief of Food LogistFood Logistics.

«It's time to end food waste» shows that food waste offers a lot of potential to make the supply chain more sustainable... and more profitable.

Including Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, end - to - end value chain opportunities, commercial and sales capabilities, as well as the financial competitiveness of the FMCG retail industry.

Preventing food waste has become a core strategy among Danish supermarket chains in their competition for market shares and nearly all of them have implemented initiatives to that end.

We aimed to examine the availability of snack food displays at checkouts, end - of - aisle displays and island displays in major supermarket chains in the least and most socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Melbourne.

Delhaize America is one of 60 food companies that have mandated an end to gestation crates in their supply chains.

Nigerian international Mikel is no longer quite up to the requisite standard of Chelsea and could probably do with ending his career playing regular first team football and a club slightly lower down the food chain.

General News of Monday, 14 May 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com File photo Governments and forest actors are about to meet in Ghana to address commodity - driven deforestation, an issue that has risen in global prominence since many major food and consumer goods companies committed to ending deforestation in key supply chains in 2010.

«The end - game is for the NHS to be working hand - in - glove with industry as the fastest adopter of new ideas in the world, acting as a huge magnet to pull new innovations through, right along the food - chain — from the labs to the boardrooms to the hospital bed.»

A little backbiting by the officials and their aides, who occupy power suites at opposite ends of the State Capitol's second floor, might be chalked up to the kind of rivalry that is an unseemly but unsurprising fact of life atop the state's political food chain.

«The length of the food chains was not shortened by the end - Permian mass extinction.

High - end grocery chains like Whole Foods have been pushing Gluten - free foods for years now, but these days you'll find a Gluten Free aisle in just about every kind of grocery store

«The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but «health» is simply not one of them, because it is given.»

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.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the film food chain, I failed to see Ned Benson's The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her, described in the catalog as an «unprecedented cinematic event» — but I did see Raya Martin and Cinema Scope editor and Locarno Film Festival programmer Mark Peranson's La última película.

At the end of the economic food chain where our culture is afraid to look for too long, Baker reveals grace and heart and challenges society's indifference.

Targets are set and agreed in closed meetings, action plans are created and delivered to class teachers and we end up routinely undermining the authority of classroom teachers by pretending that higher up the food chain there is a magic bullet.

At the upper end of the Expedition's food chain, the Limited and King Ranch offer interior appointments and exterior enhancements fully competitive with Lincoln's Navigator and GMC's Yukon Denali.

For buyers at the lower end of the financial food chain, 3.5 % may represent several years» planning and saving for a home.

«We have the look of a high - end retail store, but deep down, we are a neighborhood pet store selling food for the same price as the national chains,» Paul said.

And the same tendency for artists to move up the food chain means that, inevitably, they take the bait from the higher end of midlevel galleries as well.

For example, a pantry smelling of spices and filled with anonymous products harkens back to the artist's very personal relationship to the retail landscape of grocery stores: Both of Da Corte's grandfathers worked along the food supply chain, albeit at opposite ends.

Otherwise, it is a certainty that seawater will become so acidic by the end of this century that the plankton forming the foundation of the ocean's food chain will cease to exist, leading to a massive die - off of fish and the loss of this important food source for billions of people.

There are a lot of hypothetical deliberations on where this «missing» CO2 is going: into increased terrestrial plant photosynthesis or soil absorption, dissolved into the ocean, where it is buffered chemically or converted by photosynthesis from phytoplankton, entering the food chain and possibly getting converted to carbonates that eventually end up on the ocean floor, into limestone through weathering or dissipated into space, etc..

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Between global warming being exagerated (a la Schneider) and its effects actually being a net benefit through increased production of primary producers in the food chain, the chance that the earth is going to cool (Little Ice Age, end of Holocene Interglacial, Tambora II) I think it's absolutely nuts to worry about it at all.

Surely this is a major factor in some surface temperature warming, plus massive sequestration of CO2 which eventually ends up on the ocean floor after the various food chain inhabitants have had their feed.

The report urges multinational fast food chains and beverage retailers to commit to moving away from HFC - based refrigeration and to this end calls on the Government of India to mandate large multinationals to only install new equipment utilizing low global warming potential refrigerants.

Plastic is now entering every level of the ocean food chain and is even ending up in the seafood on our plates.