Food And Agriculture Sector ( Fa )

Over the next forty years, global population is expected to reach nine billion people. This increase in population, combined with expected economic growth, will cause an increase in food demanded and inevitably drain the resources we use for food production. So far, agriculture has been able to respond positively to the rising demand for crop and livestock products. However, farmers are already faced with many new challenges associated with feeding an expanding global population. Farmers must now meet strict new emissions requirements and produce more food on fewer acres while minimizing their environmental footprint. The demand for food is expected to grow substantially in the next couple decades. Some of the factors affecting an increase in food demands are population growth, rising incomes of individuals, food supply factors, and biofuels.

The agricultural industry: the farms, plants, animals, and farmers, have supported this great country for so long, but lately we have turned our backs on it. Today, we live in a materialistic society, people wanting more and better items, not settling for products that will accomplish the same job.From looking at the fruits and vegetables in the grocery store, we see the bruised or smaller ones left, while the big and brightly colored ones are selected first. In our society today, changes are constantly being made to help expand and evolve the agricultural industry, but it has yet been able to do so. To this day farmers across this nation have not been completely successful in providing for the people who make up this country. In the stores

The 1960s pushed farming to a new low. “federal agriculture policy continued to curtail surplus production and raise farm incomes, but it placed greater emphasis on guaranteeing low food prices” (Miller, 2011). Farmers were competing with other farms just to keep their farms and homes. The government implemented additional programs like the use of food stamps and the free school lunch programs, which further deemphasized the necessity for production for the farmers.

In the movie “Food Inc” we saw how the food industry keeps their farmers under their control. Food incorporation sets new protocols that require the farmers to keep purchasing more on dept. As a result of loans and only $18,000 annually (Kenner) they are stuck in a hole that they can’t get out of. I find many things disturbing about this. First off, I find it disturbing that he picked a poorly educated farming area. It seems obvious that the farmers don’t know what they got into and don’t have any knownldge of how to get out. I find it an example of poor unionization within the small farmers that are to be blamed not the ones that find out how to exploit it (Kenner).

Department of Agriculture). We have roughly 320.6 million people to feed in the United States alone. (U.S. Census Bureau). By supplying food such as rice and grains from our own harvest to other countries, we are already forcing ourselves to grow additional crops. We are already dependent on countries such as Mexico and for our vegetable and fruit production in the winter months (U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications.) By bestowing this aid, we are causing inflation on these necessities to rise exponentially. If we would simply cut this out, the U.S. economy would flourish much more now and in the

Recently, a few of the top chicken producers such as Tyson and Perdue were claimed to treat their chickens inhumanely. Not just that, many of the large food companies such as McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Chick-fil-A are being exposed by their contract farmers. To create a voice for the animal, many articles, websites, and books were created, dedicating to petition for animal rights, especially for chickens.

The focus of this paper is to develop or come up with an argument based on the case studies drawn from the book “Lessons Learned: Protecting America's Food Supply”. I will start by showing my understanding and my position on the assigned readings, then elaborate on the communication strategies and best practice used while providing discussion related to the researches, case studies, reading materials or essays that support my arguments. Finally, I will draw a conclusion based on my argument.

The American food industry is a complicated field. There have been various attempts to investigate how the agribusinesses manage to produce food for such a large population. The companies involved in the industry have to resort to any means necessary to produce food that is enough to feed the population. The filmmaker, Robert Kenner, investigates the industry and the practices they undertake to produce food through a 2008 documentary titled Food, Inc (Lindenfeld 385). The film shows the immoral practices by the company that result in unhealthy food being produced and sold to unsuspecting customers. The practices also have a negative effect on the environment, the animals, and the workers employed by these firms. This article examines the film to establish some of the arguments made and the moral concerns raised.

To eat healthy people need to go get fresh healthy clean food, it could be either from the corporations or farmers. In most of the case the foods from farmers are more trustable than corporations’. However, now a day millions of people in this country or billions of people in the world have to eat, so foods cannot be produced from few farmers; the number of farmers are decreasing. As it is, the big food companies are necessary to modern world. By industrialized food production, billions of people in the world can eat now, off course most of the populations cannot eat that healthy, still and because of that, the industrialized food productions, big food companies are necessary, unless

Farm workers are the key to the U.S food system, and although our population relies on

Too many people pick up food products off of the shelves and put it into their shopping cart without knowing what exactly it is or what the product has been through. After watching an absolutely disturbing documentary called "Food Inc." I started to feel strongly about the problems of the Food Industry. The problem is that our food is no longer being produced in an all American farm, but in dirty abusive factories. Not only is the food unhealthy for us after all of the processing, but the workers and animals are being abused. I know that I single handily cannot change all of the problems with the twisted food industry, but I know that I can do my part by making others aware so that they can make sure that they can make fully informed decisions about what they are putting into their carts at the grocery store and eventually into their bodies.

The Industrial Food System is an easy and fast way for Americans to put food on their table. The question is how the Industrial Food System impacts Americans lives and health. Before the Industrial Revolution people had to rely upon themselves and their communities. Back then their wasn't a store in the corner where it was easy to purchase food instantly. Food was produced locally by farmers who worked in agricultural fields. Ever since factory farms took over their are fewer "organic red farms". These modernized factories host a serious of environmental problems. A cause of running these farms are air and water pollution. Farm factory workers and people who live near by are subjected to serious respiratory and cardiac diseases caused by the

Envision a long day of sorting off cattle, doing chores, and doing odd jobs around the farm then having to come home and make supper for the family and still try to be engaged in a child’s day at school? After a long day, a family often sits in the living room and watches hours of television shows, or browses movies on Netflix, but the only shows that you receive are the farming shows. Although these shows may be relaxing and interesting, they can form negative views about the agriculture industry by how the producer orchestrates the program. When people watch a movie, they talk about how farming culture has enough farming specific mannerisms that other non-farming people will misunderstand when they see popular representations of it in modern culture. For example, glimpses of farm life on the internet and television can show how each gender plays a role in the agriculture industry. People think the only gender who can normal labor are the stereotypical “farmer boys.” When in reality anyone can work in agriculture. The public perception of farming culture is outdated, as revealed by gender roles in the mainstream representation of agricultural living.

Political factors impact the agricultural sector in factors relating to regulation, distribution, and consumption of foods in a given country. Government policies and imposed regulations have a direct effect on nutritional choices that a consumer makes, and this, in turn, affects the agriculture market (KPMG, 2012). For example, policies governing food prices or the amount of information that a consumer will receive affects the choice of the consumer. Food regulation and safety measures implemented influence the supply of food products, and ultimately determines the market choice for consumers (KPMG, 2012). Economic factors have a direct effect on the agricultural industry. On one hand, the input cost such as the price of seeds, fertilizers, and cost of labor affect the productivity of the industry. The economic status of a country also affects the industry’s productivity. For example, in developing countries, the agricultural sector is less developed owing to limited resource input and poor infrastructure (KPMG, 2012).

Agriculture is a vital part of society, and Agribusiness is of course the business behind it. While agricultural needs were different in ancient times, farming was always necessary. With agriculture came the domestication of plants and animals. This domestication allowed the human civilization to flourish. With time, new technologies and lifestyles changed the course of agriculture.