Sentences with phrase «foods we produce on»

Recently issues of global food losses and food waste have been making the news, with estimates of 30 to 40 % of all the food produced on earth going to waste before it can be consumed.

Description: The recall involves approximately 1,920 pounds of the baby food produced on December 12, 2014.

Most earlier food charts report acid or alkaline based on the physical mineral «ash» the foods produce on combustion in a closed chamber.

We eat a lot of foods we produce on our little farm, though.

Prior to the first kerosene tractors, farm work was done using human and animal energy and most of the food produced on the farm went to feed the human and animal labourers — family labour, farm labour, draft horses, stock horses, cows, calves, pigs and chooks.

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Prices on food, such as pork (and, in turn, bacon), may also fluctuate, since a drop in Chinese purchasing power would likely force U.S. farmers to produce less, potentially driving up costs at home.

«On average, the amount of water required to produce one liter of biofuel is the same amount that's required to produce food for a person for one day,» he said, adding that the problem with first generation biofuels was that they were competing with food production systems in terms of water and land.

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a «preliminary finding» that the genetically modified insects, produced by Oxitec at its labs in Oxford, England, and shipped as eggs to Florida, would have essentially «no significant impact» on human health, animal health, or the ecosystem.

It began life as one of Canada's first food banks, and while it still maintains a small, active one, with a focus on fresh produce, it long ago expanded far beyond simply handing out food.

From offices in New York City, the nonprofit produces educational videos about food, while the for - profit generates advertising revenue on ParentEarth.com and pursues sponsorship opportunities.

The company most often held up as the premier example on these issues is Chipotle (CMG), whose «Food with Integrity» campaign promotes the fact that its meat is raised without hormones and antibiotics when «possible» and local and organic produce is used when «practical.»

What we're working on now is developing a national brand of locally grown produce that reinforces regional food systems by creating opportunity for local urban micro-agribusiness to augment year - round supply in any metropolitan area.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

And as Kowitt pointed out throughout her questions, sometimes consumers say one thing and do another — meaning they say they want to eat more fresh produce and incorporate healthier foods in their diets, but still spend billions on snacks and beverages they know aren't good for them nutritionally.

And if America's ability to produce food was compromised, it could be devastating for the many industries that depend on agricultural production in this country.

Sun Basket's kits feature organic produce, meats, and seafood that are free of antibiotics and added hormones, foods it believes are on trend with the healthier fare more Americans are increasingly incorporating into their diets.

Today, it's the biggest per - capita exporter of food by nearly double — the next country on the list, France, produces only about half as much.

The company was able to pass much of the costs on to consumers, but doing so simply created yet another incentive for shoppers to look for alternatives, especially at a time many are turning away from the kinds of processed foods Kraft produces.

Low - income residents select free bread and produce at the Community Food Bank of New Jersey on August 28, 2015 in Egg Harbor, New Jersey.

«In general, the know - how acquired thanks to our projects has an immediate application not only in space but also on Earth,» he added, highlighting that the company could now produce space food with a shelf - life of three years.

In the meantime, companies can focus on better predicting demand (to avoid producing more food than people will actually consume) and suppressing our appetite for red meat.

In urban areas, lack of vacant plots of land is driving more and more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side of buildings rather than outwards.

SVX helps ventures raise capital across sectors including cleantech, health, work and learning, food, and social inclusion, providing support to enterprises focused on early cancer detection to community power co-operatives producing renewable energy.

Already, Chinese have made news for their massive cross-border retail consumption on Kiwi imported foods like dairy products, fresh produce, meat, honey, and health supplements.

The changing climate will present new risks and new opportunities as we face the very complex task of producing enough food, feed, and fuel for a world on its way to nine billion increasingly prosperous people.

Another's that I feel some inclination to care for the creation and not use the resources it takes to bathe all the time and to produce, ship, package food and so on.

Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

In fact most of us would be trying to scratch out a living on a farm with no modern equipment, hoping for enough rain to produce food for the next year, and dying at 35 yrs old from diseases now cured by drug companies.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

This has to do with the photosynthesis on the basis of which our foods and fibers and forest products are produced.

As seen on CNN Heroes (www.AmpleHarvest.org/cnn), AmpleHarvest.org enables millions of home gardeners nationwide to donate excess garden produce to local food pantries — especially important because food pantries almost never have fresh food.

The last time the world faced food shortages on a global basis, agricultural scientists produced the green revolution.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

In the United States, instead of producing on a single farm all the food needed to sustain a family, whole states specialize in producing one particular crop.

Moreover, the impressive breadth of Ruether's argument makes her susceptible to criticism from a variety of quarters: biblical scholars may disagree with her interpretation of Paul; environmental scientists, with her figures on atmospheric carbon dioxide content; and agricultural and nutritional experts, with her recipe for relying on consumption of seasonal, locally produced foods.

Subsistence farmers depend on the soil to produce food for their families; they know the seasons and when rains will come to water their crops and allow seeds to send out roots.

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Saccaro boasts that the company's attention to detail on the ingredient side and its ability to mass - produce fresh food every day doesn't exist on a regional scale outside of Quest.

Consumers rely on manufacturers to produce safe, high - quality foods, and in turn the manufacturers rely on their suppliers to help them live up to that promise.

In the old days, fruits and vegetables were never the center of the plate, but today's food trends are putting a greater emphasis on produce, Pavlofsky says.

Having the ability to print personalized food labels on demand allows you to produce printed labels in minutes rather than days or weeks.

The FDA has produced an on - line Guidance for Industry: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergens, which can be downloaded here.

IFOAM produced a briefing paper ahead of the conference outlining its concerns regarding the potential impact of the policy architecture being discussed on smallholders, food security and hunger.

The app works on the basis that restaurants that often have an excess of pre-prepared dishes can list their surplus food on the app, which then sends notifications to nearby users when produce is listed by the restaurants.

Jane, who is also the driving force behind the annual Beer Day Britain, will be guiding participants through a tasting selection of distinctive craft beers on GPI's Gastro Pub - styled stand, where visitors can also marvel at the innovative packaging designs GPI produce for the beer, spirits and premium food market.

A leader in food safety, quality control, and innovation, Markon is also mindful of the produce industry's impact on people — from field workers to consumers.

We're all guilty of wasting food from time to time (Americans on average throw out 40 % of their food every year — eek) especially in the produce department.

Early results of a 12 million pound, 4 - year EU study on the benefits of organic food suggest that some of them, such as fruit, vegetables and milk, are more nutritious than non-organically produced food and may contain higher concentrations of cancer fighting and heart beneficial antioxidants.

Flours containing gluten may be used on conveyor belts to help keep products from sticking, and factories that produce foods with gluten may have some level of cross contamination to the modified food starch.

Plus, only real food ingredients are on this list — think pasture - raised eggs, nitrate - free bacon, raw or organic milk, coconut milk and local and organic produce.