Sentences with phrase «on up the food chain»

Weiss - Penzias and his colleagues are still working to trace the path of toxic mercury from ocean waters to fog to land to animals, and on up the food chain.

If photosynthesizing plants at the bottom of the pond can't get enough sunlight, they will die; theoretically, the small organisms that feed on those plants would die next, and so on up the food chain.

Paralegals seem to be first on the chopping block, followed by first year associates, and on up the food chain.

Not exact matches

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).

After holding numerous positions at the food chain and working his way up, Jones was named CEO of the company on April 30.

But when individuals have more money to spend, they tend to migrate up the food chain to restaurant takeout or prepared items from the rotisserie counter instead of buying more frozen fare, notes a recent report on the sector from research firm IBISWorld.

Burger King, the fast - food chain operator, has a leg up on McDonald's when it comes to letting customers order and pay for...

As the «pay for work» practice is especially prevalent at the commodity - sourcing level of the food supply chain, the «No Fees» initiative initially focused on promoting ethical recruitment in palm oil and seafood sourcing, and has now scaled up to include companies in the electronics, apparel, and extractives sectors.

Much of the attention has been focused on the chain's ability to efficiently serve up fresh, relatively healthy fast food.

The higher up on the food chain you go, the less likely church leaders are going to follow their own religion.

Any plant species feeding on their resultant fertilizes may also pick - up their sub-human traits and passed them on in the food chain.

Sometimes, the thought of picking up something on your lunch break from the local food hall or fast food chain might seem like the only available food option.

However I will concede that it does make quick work of making a savory tart and on more than one occasion I've been duped by someone, whose tart I've complimented, which prompted what I call «The Garbage Can Confessional»: when someone has to fess up and extract an empty box from the poubelle, usually from Picard, France's popular frozen food chain.

If they call something a trend and then use that prediction to sell those flavors up and down the food chain, it's like Goldman Sachs putting a buy rating on a stock they're promoting and then profiting when the stock's price inevitably goes up in reaction to that rating.

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, a Colorado - based health food chain that sells only organic and natural products (without artificial colors, preservatives, flavors or sweeteners), is aware of this discrepancy, and has come up with strict guidelines on how they assess the health value of their products.

Renault will want its product to be advertised in its quickest form, and on - track performance from McLaren could be the only factor that can propel the team up the food chain.

The plan stops working when you get higher up on the food chain and especially when a fighter hits their 30s.

«The real value added is when you keep moving these people up the food chain on any issue,» Brandon said.

There was a reason for conservative deposits, LVRs and income multiples at the basic level, and similar safeguards on up the food - chain.

Their blog was read by maybe 30 people on an average day, but among that tiny audience was a handful of more prominent writers, and the videos of past Sotomayor speeches they unearthed began to climb their way up the media food chain.

Cuomo, in an animated speech, said fast food chains make huge profits while relying on taxpayer subsidies, like food stamps, to make up for the low pay they give their workers.

Torres, 26, is moving nicely up the political food chain, after spending a few years on the staff of Assemblyman Kevin Cahill before signing on with fellow Democrat Auerbach.

(Not that they don't now, since King, an on - again / off - again Cuomo ally / opponent, is already pretty high up the food chain).

Large chain restaurants and fast - food eateries in New York City can be fined up to $ 600 beginning next week for not posting salt warnings on menu items that contain more than the recommended daily dose of sodium, a judge ruled.

What Leveson rightly focused on were exchanges far higher up the food chain than pints in the Red Lion on Whitehall or lunch at the Gay Hussar in Soho.

Burke says the State Senate has failed to act more than a year after the Attorney General issued a report on the dangers posed by the plastic, which is likely being consumed by fish and wildlife and making it way up the food chain.

That may explain in part why a plankton - eater like a blue whale can have lower levels of PCBs than beluga whales: The belugas are higher up on the food chain.

While some populations migrate up and down the mountain streams, they are strictly aquatic feeding on underwater insects and salmon eggs and fry that can accumulate methylmercury and biomagnify it up the food chain.

BRAN FERREN: The triumph of the Internet was that the authors were smart enough to work only on the lowest level protocols rather than anticipate things higher up the food chain, which permitted interoperability to an extent that no one ever expected.

Going up the food chain, the scientists observed that there was little chance that the most closely related wasps feed on the same species of aphid.

Researchers mathematically compared each food web's structural features with those of modern - day food web datasets — matching up such indicators as fractions of carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores; the distributions of generalist and specialist feeders; the mean lengths of feeding chains connecting pairs of taxa; and so on.

Next, they mathematically compared each food web's structural features with those of modern - day food web datasets — matching up such indicators as fractions of carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores; the distributions of generalist and specialist feeders; the mean lengths of feeding chains connecting pairs of taxa; and so on.

Now a team of researchers from MIT, the University of Alabama, and elsewhere has found that such increased ocean acidification will dramatically affect global populations of phytoplankton — microorganisms on the ocean surface that make up the base of the marine food chain.

Riedijk also says that the foundation is working on a method to trace the movement of iron up the food chain and into fish populations.

Dining out is a wonderful occasional treat, but many chain restaurants simply heat up packaged food in the back and put it on a plate, so they really don't have a lot of control over ingredients.

To come up with our winning chains, our expert panel (meet them below) reviewed the 35 largest food retailers across the country and selected the absolute healthiest, based on everything from the freshness of produce and taste of prepared foods to the healthiness of packaged goods and availability of supplemental nutritional information.

The farm ponds can be polluted, and the farmers often serve fish meal to the fish, so they end up higher up on the food chain (bigger toxic load) than they would in the wild.

Researchers focused on two species of bacteria that break up dietary fibers from food into small molecules called short - chain fatty acids.

Check out Boosting Heart Nerve Control for how we can improve heart rhythm function through diet, and check out my other videos on alcohol; caffeine; and the persistent organic pollutants that build up in the aquatic food chain.

See also Boosting Heart Nerve Control for how one can improve heart rhythm function through diet, and there are other videos on alcohol, caffeine and the persistent organic pollutants that build up in the aquatic food chain.

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.

These fish are higher up on the food chain, which means they sometimes contain high levels of mercury and other toxins.

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.

For instance, if your theme is around learners rising their way up the food chain in the jungle, make sure any badges they earn on your LMS are animal related.

Those successful in current programs in Europe, including Aston's recently announced single - make racing series, will receive recognition from the automaker and the opportunity to test race cars higher up on the food chain.

When it goes on sale in Australia mid-2016 it will move up the family food chain, demoting the hardtop Cayman to entry - level status.

Diversifying cashflow in my portfolios is a primary long - term objective and I have to be prepared to look beyond common equities as an equity class since we've witnessed that they are much more vulnerable to dividend cuts than senior equity or debt higher up on the capital food chain.

Brookside Barkery & Bath teamed up with Nature's Logic to donate 2,000 pounds of food to Chain of Hope KC in Raytown, Missouri, on August 15.

If you're counting on the fact that you have little to no overlap in product selection with the big - box chains to help you rest easy, consider the fact that many independent chains like Bentley's Pet Stuff, Kriser's and Chuck & Don's — retailers that probably carry most, if not all, of the same food brands that you stock — have amped up their own home delivery services.

The different tiers vary in name at airlines and hotel chains, but are all based upon the same principle — the more you travel with a carrier or stay with a hotel chain, the higher up on the food chain you will find yourself.