Major
food corporations like EPIC, a line of meat products, and Annie's, the popular mac - and - cheese purveyor, both owned by General Mills, have recently hopped on the carbon - sequestration bandwagon and committed to regenerative practices, signaling a new wave of sustainable food beyond the organically grown label.
This is very time consuming and difficult so the USDA has made it easier by aligning with major
food corporations like Tyson.
Not exact matches
Many large
corporations landed a spot on the list,
like PepsiCo (
food, beverage, and tobacco industry), Southwest Airlines (transportation), and American Express (consumer and diversified finance).
While claiming to promote
food security and benefit small farmers, Grow's focus on a few high - value commodities —
like potatoes, maize, coffee, tea and palm oil — exposes the programme's real objective: to expand the production of a handful of commodities to profit a handful of
corporations.
There's a whole range of objections to GM
food, ranging from the health fears through to the attitude that GM has potential when focused on real
food supply issues
like developing drought - resistant crops, but not under the control of a handful of
corporations that could come to control our
food supply.
Many of the regulations mandated by FSMA will be especially costly to small farmers and businesses that don't have the elaborate
food safety control mechanisms of
corporations like ConAgra and Kraft.
Why do I feel
like this line of reasoning would be heavily supported by major
corporations like fast
food that would say they just can't afford to pay people living wages.
From the article: But more likely, says Cooper, is that
corporations will simply «find a way to make processed
foods fit the guidelines,» just as they do now with chicken nuggets, fruit roll ups, flavored milks and the
like.
When it comes to transparency and
food labeling, the Times editorial board («Labels for Controversial Ingredients» 11/7/13) favors voluntary disclosure by
corporations over ballot initiatives which would legally require the disclosure of controversial ingredients
like genetically modified organisms.
Because Kraft, Coca Cola and Wal - mart are living proof that is possible for giant
corporations to make and sell kid - friendly, family - friendly, and healthy processed
foods so that we can give our kids some special treats —
like the U.K. versions of Starburst and Skittles, for example — without necessarily exposing them to a chemical cocktail that might also give them brain tumors, or leukemia, or the symptoms of ADHD, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest recently highlighted in their report «Rainbow of Risks».
One school or district may have a partnership with a large
corporation,
like Whole Foods, allowing them to source some healthier
food items for a favorable price; if your school district can't get the same deal, then this will affect whether you can offer the same kind of meal for the same price as a district which does have a low cost source for better
food.
«While the Tories refuse to properly clamp down on tax avoidance and push ahead with tax giveaways to the
corporations and super rich, public sector workers
like our nurses are relying on
food banks.
The experiment that the Koch bros promoted foreshadows the mess that centrists will need to clean up shortly in D.C. Conservatives argue that programs
like welfare and
food stamps undermine motivation but then tell us that millions in revenue they give to
corporations will ultimately trickle down to the middle class.
Cuomo said state taxpayers are subsidizing big
corporations like McDonald's that pay workers so little that they qualify for welfare or
food stamps, at a cost of $ 6,800 per worker.
Though large
corporations can absorb the cost of these suits, it is likely to hurt smaller businesses (
like the ones that provide healthy, natural
foods and supplements).
That being said, our primary problem in America with regard to diet is doctors
like Rosedale aren't funded to do large population studies with healthful diets that could in turn reduce taxpayers contribution to the medical industries, American's are bombarded with unhealthy propagandistic marketing from
food corporations, Americans have been taught that it's not our fault that we eat bad
food because «were hungry» (with pouty lips) and a healthy diet is aberrant and only for people who are overweight.
The customers of biotechnology companies are farmers (whose customers are
food processing
corporations etc.), and most of them don't care about the end consumer either: they want a product that can fight (kill) insects, as well as other natural organisms — called names
like weeds etc..
Google makes fast - knowledge available these days
like some American
corporations make fast
food.
The good news for us is that Malthus didn't foresee the impact of technological innovations which greatly increased
food production — including new financial technologies
like the
corporation, international trade, and capital markets.
For example, Prince
Corporation,
like a number of premium wild bird
food and product manufacturers, offers to help «guide and educate their dealers in [adding or] redesigning a wild bird department» so that a customer's «buying experience is easy and enjoyable,» says Krause.
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese
food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross -
like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn
Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
Fearmongering about an imminent climate doomsday also hogs news coverage and important environmental issues
like GM
food, mad scientist chimera cloning and the usurpation and abuse of
corporations like Monsanto flies under the radar.
On June 2, a coalition of activist organizations led by Erie Rising and joined by the
likes of the Sierra Club, the Mark Ruffalo - lead Water Defense, the Angela Monti Fox - lead Mothers Project (mother of «Gasland» Producer and Director, Josh Fox),
Food and Water Watch (FWW), among others, will take to Erie, CO to say «leave and leave now» to EnCana
Corporation.