Food Industry

Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, The Price of Tomatoes, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue.

An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.

The tragic and cautionary tale of a PhD Librarian with allergies, a Clowder of Cats, Ancient Egyptian plagues, and how the food industry turned almost everyone into never-decaying zombies with an ‘organic’ food preservative made of an ancient fungus found in a cursed city. Dr. Babbette Bland must choose; the cats she’s allergic to but which the zombies fear, or the fungus zombies, which she is also allergic to and will eat her. Escaping Baltimore, she goes on the road cross country with a 100-year-old Egyptologist Lady Theodora Thorpe who survived the first encounter with the plague ...

Are you thinking about opening a restaurant, bar or nightclub? This is a complex business with a big learning curve. You can either learn by trial and error spending hundreds of thousands of dollars or you can lean from those that have already done it successfully. Chris Seferyn has survived and thrived for 20+ years in the hospitality business. He has literally seen it all when it comes to serving people food and beverages. This book is the distillation of everything he has learned by making all the mistakes that you would make. How do you pick a concept? How do you choose a location? How ...

Are you at your wits’ end with seemingly unrelated aches, pains, and complaints that no one has been able to explain yet? Or are digestive problems making your life so difficult that you don’t even feel like cooking or eating anymore? All of this and more could be related to the foods you eat and the inflammation they cause in your body. Listen to learn about food intolerances, food sensitivities, and food allergies. What they are, how they work, and most importantly, what you can do about them.

At more than a billion dollars, the mobile-food industry is enjoying more publicity and notoriety than ever before. Catering to a new generation of foodies looking for quick and unique specialties, the mobile-food business is booming with new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. From gourmet food to all-American basics and hot dog wagons to bustaurants, our experts give you the delicious details behind starting and running a successful mobile-food business.

In Unsafe at Any Meal, Dr. Renee Dufault, former food investigator for the Food and Drug Administration, provides the startling answers. While at the FDA, Dr. Dufault discovered that mercury - a highly toxic metal - was contaminating the plumbing systems of many food manufacturing plants. Upon further examination, she discovered that the same mercury was also evident in a number of processed foods commonly sold in supermarkets.

Thought for Food Edited by Dr Shara Cohen PhD CBiol FWIF FRCPath FIBMS FRSB BEM In a world flooded with food advice, media scares and marketing claims, it can be hard to know what – or whom – to trust. Thought for Food cuts through the confusion by bringing together expert voices from across the food industry, science and health sectors. From the science of genetic engineering to the cultural roots of our eating habits, from food safety and allergies to the role of probiotics and emotional eating, this book explores how what we eat affects our bodies, our society and our environment. ...

It chronicles the journey of how man moved from food capture to food production, being producers themselves and not just consumers for varying reasons and evolving along the way to more sustainable and advanced production practices; not leaving out challenges encountered as every good thing would. Makes us understand that farming ranges from crops and animals to other resources on a considerable portion of land, you can't take away real estate from farming. It documents the journey of Nigeria, which had been known as an agricultural sustained economy before the discovery of oil leading to ...

Can we afford to stand by as our planet collapses? In the past 50 years, humanity has wiped out 70% of the world’s wild animals. Our oceans are being emptied, wildlife habitats destroyed, and ecosystems pushed to the brink, all to satisfy an insatiable hunger for meat and animal products. In The Ego System: The Awakening, award-winning journalist René Zografos reveals the devastating consequences of the meat industry on the environment, animal welfare, and our health. With eye-opening insights into factory farming, wildlife crimes, and political inaction, this book challenges us to ...

In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed.

INTRODUCTION Wild vegetables have been the mainstay of human diets for centuries and are receiving renewed attention from nutritionists, healthcare professionals, scientists, educationists, governments and the general public with the recognition that they could significantly contribute to alleviating hunger and malnutrition. Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by a wide variety of fungal species that cause nutritional losses and represent a significant hazard to the food chain. Among the food-borne mycotoxins, aflatoxins and fumonisins are likely to be of greatest significance in ...

The Processed Food Dilemma: How Convenience is Costing Us Our Health In the last few decades, our food has changed more than at any other point in history. What was once a symbol of innovation—processed food—has quietly transformed global diets, reshaping public health in ways we are only beginning to grasp. The convenience of ultra-processed foods has come at a hidden cost: skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses. This book exposes the deeper truth behind our modern food choices and their long-term consequences. Processed foods dominate ...

Starting a business is a huge task. You must conduct market research, apply for a license, develop a marketing strategy, and create your brand. Entrepreneurship opportunities vary, and there are no limitations in terms of what business idea to pursue. However, franchises may be suitable if you want to start a business with established brands and business models. As a franchise owner, you can adapt the resources and branding of a famous brand while yet having the freedom to operate your own business. If you are considering launching a franchise, you are most likely considering becoming a ...

In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival. An independent journalist and nutrition expert, Lawless is emerging as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers.

Years of consolidation, price-fixing, and power grabs by elite industry insiders have harmed consumers and caused environmental destruction. And while that’s hurting us, it’s also making others rich. Now, financial journalist Chloe Sorvino presents a “deeply informed and eye-opening” (Publishers Weekly) look at the meat industry and its future as its fundamental weaknesses are laid bare for all to see.

In practically all developed countries of the world, the rates of obesity are going up. At the same time, the ever-increasing number of people find employment in the IT or IT-related fields of industry. This eBook examines the connection between working in the IT industry and the dangers of becoming overweight that these jobs carry with them, while it also explores psychological ideas which might be able to impact this process in a positive way.

No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial or altogether incorrect. In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical school.

Operating an ALF can be rewarding. The services you provide for people aged 62+ and their families help people live their best lives. You also contribute to the community and society at large by maintaining the health and well-being of a contributing member.

This book explores the almighty hot dog by looking at its history, manufacturing, and icon status. Equipment, formulation, processing, and preparation are explained by an industry veteran who also debunks hot dog myths and provides trade secrets known only by a select few.