Sentences with phrase «way up the food chain»

He has indicated concern about executive staff being underpaid, which usually works its way up the food chain to elected officials.

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.

In the presence of mercury, which in this study came from Asia via ocean currents, the decomposition process creates methylmercury, which works its way up the food chain and into predators such as tuna.

The acid, she explained, is exuded by tiny algae and then works its way up the food chain.

These chemicals naturally accumulate in colder conditions, and can work their way up the food chain.

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.

The problems could run all the way up the food chain: Reduce the menu for one animal, and you've reduced the menu for other animals, as well (fewer sea butterflies means hard times for the animals that eat sea butterflies).

These pollutants work their way up the food chain and onto our plates.

As you work you way up the food chain, however, you'll run into a formidable foe called Diablos.

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.

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.

Although there's a trend, even in big box stores, towards empowering salespeople to call more shots, you're probably better off working your way up the food chain.

When this algae makes its way up the food chain, domoic acid can cause seizures and other brain problems, mostly in sea lions.

London is split into boroughs; starting in the slums of Whitechapel and then moving your way up the food chain to Westminster.

There are 14 selectable fighters (including two women), most of whom have a story mode that consists of a similar «fight your way up the food chain» theme.

These pollutants can work their way up the food chain — and onto our plates.

This can pose a threat to human health when fish and other organisms mistake them for food and the toxins make their way up the food chain.

But seals are a long way up the food chain.

And these toxic plastics can work their way up the food chain and onto our plates: We caught a fish in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre and found 16 pieces of plastic in its belly.

One of the more insidious qualities of the toxin is its tendency to become progressively more concentrated as it works its way up the food chain.

We then, consume those plastic particles and the toxins make their way up the food chain.

Just the act of mining it out of the ground causes a fair amount of destruction (and costs the lives of many miners, especially in poorer countries), and burning it produces more CO2 than any other source of energy, as well as mercury that makes its way up the food chain and smog - forming emissions of all kinds... But that's not all!

The amount of meat we eat goes up, and it's usually working your way up the food chain toward the most energy intense, water intense, land intense sources of food — beef, at the top of the chain, or bluefin tuna at the top of the ocean chain.

These pollutants work their way up the food chain and onto our plates.

Studies have shown health problems among plankton and other small organisms that eat microfibers, which then make their way up the food chain.»

Not exact matches

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

«They've been a huge partner with us to help design packaging in this category that is incredibly safe and durable and holds up to the life in the food chain, all the way through manufacturing, distribution and delivering a great meal to the consumer's dining table,» says Dana Richardson, vice president of marketing.

Tuesday's meeting highlighted that the way to do that is through education, measurement and partnerships up and down the supply chain, working together to find opportunities to generate less waste, recycle unavoidable food waste (like peels and rinds), diverting it from landfills, and get food to those who need it.

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.

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.

«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.

Some emit toxins that can paralyze or kill such shellfish as clams, mussels, and oysters and can adversely affect the food chain all the way up to humans.

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

«They're truly fertilizing the river and so that makes its way all the way up through the food chain,» Tonra said.

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

This triggers a chain reaction of T2Rs all the way down your digestive tract, revving up your digestive organs for a new wave of half - chewed food.

Industrial chemicals can leach into soil and groundwater and then make their way into the food chain and build up in fish, animals, and people

Penny Punching Princess is an upcoming Action RPG by NIS America that looks to blend the combat styles of a brawler, with the added twist of buying your way back up the financial food chain.

In the early days, I developed games for other companies and moved up the food chain to become a publisher so that I could make games «my way.»

The player takes the role of a grunt and has to work their way up the mobile suit food chain through successive missions until they are piloting one of the several eponymous Gundams.

The goal is to «reimagine by - products at every link in the food chain,» coming up with innovative ways to serve and consume under - appreciated foods.

And that means oceans warm enough to support the lower links in the food chain from plankton all the way up to seals.

We've also recently learned microplastic is working its way up the marine food chain.

Prediction models based on summer time measurements show increasing acidity by 2070 that would have a major impact on animals with shells and animals at the bottom of the food chain that would then work its way up to affecting the large animals that depend on them for food.

Those that can up and move are the lucky ones — for now — but each relocation affects food chains and habitats, often in ways we can't yet predict.

The GC population is known to be a very seasoned group of people and it usually includes pretty senior lawyers sitting way up on the food chain.