Sentences with phrase «hidden costs of the food»

In his opening keynote, the journalist Jonathan Bloom highlighted the hidden costs of food production.

Adrien de Groot Ruiz, Executive Director of True Price, will give some insights into the hidden costs of food and agricultural products.

If there were policies which worked out the hidden costs of the food we eat, then the price of food would change and people might eat more sustainably, he says.

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Rosenbaum also hides the ball from readers when he compares the cost of funding healthier school food (an additional $ 1.22 billion over pre-HHFKA reimbursements, according to the USDA) to the skyrocketing costs of obesity ($ 200 billion dollars per year).

This company and others promise to detect such hidden problems with blood tests that can range in cost from hundreds to thousands of dollars, depending on how many foods are tested for.

Students learn to despise free market economics in lessons about third - world sweatshops, «living wage» laws, the earnings of fast food workers and restaurant CEOs, and the «hidden» costs of meat production,» Velderman reported.

Cellulosic ethanol proponents have pushed the idea of using farm waste as a way to boost biofuel production without impacting food crops, but such conversion may carry a hidden cost in areas with insufficient rainfall or lacking irrigation, warns a soil scientist from Washington State University.