Sentences with phrase «up the food chain»

An estimated 2 billion people in other countries are also moving up the food chain, consuming more grain - intensive livestock products.

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.

We might also need to anticipate paying a hiring bonus so we can hire as high up the food chain as possible to minimize the turmoil.

Further up the food chain in this story was the client's choice of real estate agents.

How far will the mercury travel up the food chain?

Of course, going up the food chain increases the number of standard features — while exposing the customer to even more expensive options.

When animals eat these plastic pieces, the toxins are absorbed into their body and passed up the food chain.

Some pesticides persist in the environment for decades and accumulate up the food chain.

I feel like emailing up the food chain at the company to see if I can get something accomplished.

In that way, toxins dissolved in the water, possibly for decades, begin their journey up the food chain toward humans.

The varied diet and movement results in an animal with healthier fats, lower cholesterol, and this translates directly to a benefit up the food chain.

It not only causes obvious physical harm to those creatures, but also passes the chemicals from the plastic up the food chain.

They are also more likely to have the knowledge and connections to know how and when to seek more experienced counsel and refer more complex cases up the food chain.

When you've met those groups, move up the food chain and visit everyone who attends regularly.

Both deserve to be treated as important but the reality is, as you go up the food chain the expectations become different.

The toxic form of the element is methylmercury, which is toxic to the nervous system and can move up the food chain as higher organisms accumulate the methylmercury present in their prey.

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.

Although they are distinctly different than mercury in chemical composition, they also bioaccumulate up the food chain, and some fish may contain all three contaminants.

Cox, a researcher in Guam in the 1990s, hypothesized that BMAA worked its way up the food chain from the cycad seeds to bats to the Chamorro who hunted them.

As the human species heads toward 9 billion in the next few decades, with a tendency to eat up the food chain as prosperity rises, is there any prospect of sustaining yields of seafood, whether wild - caught or farmed?

Many steps up the food chain later, predators like tuna receive methylmercury from the fish they consume... it appears the recent mercury enrichment of the sampled Pacific Ocean waters is caused by emissions originating from fallout near the Asian coasts.

According to Brusatte, Timurlengia proves these dinos evolved smarts first and size second: «Timurlengia pre-adapted their super powers, waiting for an opportunity to rise up the food chain.

This means the Galaxy Europa is a notch up the food chain from the ultra low cost Alcatel OT - 980, and closer in price to the LG Optimus GT540.

Players can form groups or go solo as they perform live shows and earn «fame» (i.e., experience points) in order to move up the food chain of the hip - hop world.

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.

Now, scientists have determined what killed them: a potent toxin produced by microscopic algae, which climb up the food chain through fish and into marine mammals.

These pollutants bioaccumulate in the tissues of marine organisms, biomagnify up the food chain, and find their way into the foods we eat.»

These impacts, which researchers can visualize with satellite data, can ripple up the food chain to fisheries and the livelihoods of fishermen.

If you're new to eating out with kids, consider working your way gradually up the food chain by practicing good behavior in a basic burger joint, where manners matter less to those around you.

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

As to be expected from an entry level model, the bells and whistles, both in the cabin and under the bonnet, lay further up the food chain so it was no surprise I stepped out of this car wanting more.

Bloom is darkly funny and absolutely terrifying as he employs cutthroat tactics to ruthlessly make his way up the food chain in his pursuit of a new career in the field of freelance TV new reporting.

Meraz brought the deal up the food chain at Showtime, which eventually bought the first - window rights for $ 60,000, a «low to middle» amount.

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.

Explore pool edges for signs of amphibians, study water samples in search of insect larva, and determine what makes up the food chain of this ecosystem.

Some groups have seen success by working up the food chain on the largest sites, contacting DailyKos «diarists» and other lesser - known writers and hoping that the resulting story gets «promoted» to the site front page.

«The particles are sucking up toxins in the water potentially contaminating fish that eat them and sending up the food chain to humans,» Higgins said.

Bioaccumulation, as the process is known, would pass the rodenticide up the food chain, where concentrations increase.

A continued decline would reverberate up the food chain and reduce atmospheric CO2 absorption, potentially accelerating climate change.

Until recently, little was known about the plant communities that propped up the food chain back then.

But at the same time, George is hoping the bloom will trickle up the food chain and feed salmon, restoring their historic abundance.

«This kind of study adds to the evidence of the way that climate moves its influence up the food chain,» says Arthur Miller, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.

It doesn't stop there: When plant populations get hammered, the effect ricochets up the food chain.

According to Hutchins, flagellates are not nearly as good at passing their stored energy up the food chain to fish and other higher life forms.

The basic concept is to build foods from the bottom up using basic chemical compounds, many of which can be synthesised in a lab, to recreate familiar flavours and textures or invent new ones (see «Chemical cuisine poised to shake up food chain «-RRB-.

Brill, Stephanie soon learned, had reached people higher up the food chain throughout the federal government.