Bibliography
Gardner, Sherwin. Consumers and food safety: A food industry perspective.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/v2890t/v2890t05.htm
In this article Gardner states concerns that consumers should be aware of when purchasing food. He states guidelines about the standards, how they are implemented. Along with the standards, Gardner states the efforts to ensure the quality for the consumers and how big of a factor communication is in the food industry. In this article Gardner favors the consumers in the effort to ensure that all consumers are receiving the healthiest, purest food. His main focus to get the point across to the consumer that they have the choice on what products they buy.
National Conference of State Legislature. (2010). Federal Food Safety Laws.
http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=19077
The main focus of this article is to explain all the acts and laws of the food processing system. It states the different departments that help regulate the food industry. Also in the article it states several acts that food processing plants must follow to ensure quality and sanitation. This article states the basics of individualized programs that each states has to meet the needs of food quality.
United Nations World Food Programme. (2009). Food Quality Control.
http://foodquality.wfp.org/foodsafetyandhygiene/inspection/
This website's main focus is to make the public aware of what our foods go through before they get to us. They do this by talking about food factory inspections and testing. We need these crucial steps in the food processing system to ensure that our food that we are consuming is not contaminated. This website is all about the measures of protection that the food industry goes through to ensure consumer safety and wellness.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2010-2011). Career Guide to Industries: Food Manufacturing.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/oco/cg/cgs011.htm
The above website goes into detail about the food manufacturing industries workers. It talks about the nature of the industry, the working conditions, employment, occupations that are available, and their earnings. Food manufacturing employees do not need any formal education, a high school diploma is not always required. Each higher job within the food industry depends upon what education they have received.
Falconer, Julie. The Humane Society. (2010). The Illusion of Cheap Food.
Falconer, Julie. The Humane Society. (2010). Undercover at the Largest U.S. Egg Producer
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/
Falconer discusses how supermarket prices are false advertisements to lead people to believe that food is good. The actual factory farming is the complete opposite in that they are involved in the humane treatment of animals.
In the next article discusses an undercover study of Cal-Maines factory farming in Texas. This farm was documented with the abuse of animals. Chickens were caged in a small area, some were found dead, or trapped due to the small area. Also at this factory farm the found cases of Salmonella and links to previous recalled eggs in the past.
Hatz, Diane. Grace. Sustainable Table.
http://www.sustainabletable.org
The purpose of Sustainable Table is to inform consumers of the agricultural system. Sustainable Table is a program founded to ensure that consumers are aware of what happens in the food processing system. This program is also used to inform consumers of the steps to switching from industrial to sustainable foods. This programs goal is for the consumers to understand the issue at hand, be educated about food and lastly who grows the food.
Kenner, R. (Producer, Director) and Scholsser, E. (Producer). (2008). Food, Inc. [DVD]. Magnolia
Home Entertainment.
Food Inc. is a documentary that addresses the process that meat companies use to prepare our foods. Meat companies need a mass quantity of animals, in doing that very inhumane ways are brought upon to these animals. Food Inc. concentrated on the feeding of corn to the animals. Corn is a very inexpensive grain. Being that corn is inexpensive farmers feed it to their animals to speed up the production process. Not only are the animals fed corn, the are given other drugs to speed up the process. With this inhumane treatment, the animals tend to be diseased. If an animal that is diseased gets slaughtered, that then is spread to the consumer who has ingested that particular meat. Food Inc went to many different farms for major meat companies, and the conditions of those farms were horrible. After seeing the conditions of the farms, Food Inc. wanted to interview an employee of the company, and in every situation the company denied an interview. I found that ironic, being that many of the farms are treating their animals inhumane, to mass produce for these companies, they wont speak
http://www.fao.org/docrep/v2890t/v2890t05.htm
In this article Gardner states concerns that consumers should be aware of when purchasing food. He states guidelines about the standards, how they are implemented. Along with the standards, Gardner states the efforts to ensure the quality for the consumers and how big of a factor communication is in the food industry. In this article Gardner favors the consumers in the effort to ensure that all consumers are receiving the healthiest, purest food. His main focus to get the point across to the consumer that they have the choice on what products they buy.
National Conference of State Legislature. (2010). Federal Food Safety Laws.
http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=19077
The main focus of this article is to explain all the acts and laws of the food processing system. It states the different departments that help regulate the food industry. Also in the article it states several acts that food processing plants must follow to ensure quality and sanitation. This article states the basics of individualized programs that each states has to meet the needs of food quality.
United Nations World Food Programme. (2009). Food Quality Control.
http://foodquality.wfp.org/foodsafetyandhygiene/inspection/
This website's main focus is to make the public aware of what our foods go through before they get to us. They do this by talking about food factory inspections and testing. We need these crucial steps in the food processing system to ensure that our food that we are consuming is not contaminated. This website is all about the measures of protection that the food industry goes through to ensure consumer safety and wellness.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2010-2011). Career Guide to Industries: Food Manufacturing.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/oco/cg/cgs011.htm
The above website goes into detail about the food manufacturing industries workers. It talks about the nature of the industry, the working conditions, employment, occupations that are available, and their earnings. Food manufacturing employees do not need any formal education, a high school diploma is not always required. Each higher job within the food industry depends upon what education they have received.
Falconer, Julie. The Humane Society. (2010). The Illusion of Cheap Food.
Falconer, Julie. The Humane Society. (2010). Undercover at the Largest U.S. Egg Producer
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/
Falconer discusses how supermarket prices are false advertisements to lead people to believe that food is good. The actual factory farming is the complete opposite in that they are involved in the humane treatment of animals.
In the next article discusses an undercover study of Cal-Maines factory farming in Texas. This farm was documented with the abuse of animals. Chickens were caged in a small area, some were found dead, or trapped due to the small area. Also at this factory farm the found cases of Salmonella and links to previous recalled eggs in the past.
Hatz, Diane. Grace. Sustainable Table.
http://www.sustainabletable.org
The purpose of Sustainable Table is to inform consumers of the agricultural system. Sustainable Table is a program founded to ensure that consumers are aware of what happens in the food processing system. This program is also used to inform consumers of the steps to switching from industrial to sustainable foods. This programs goal is for the consumers to understand the issue at hand, be educated about food and lastly who grows the food.
Kenner, R. (Producer, Director) and Scholsser, E. (Producer). (2008). Food, Inc. [DVD]. Magnolia
Home Entertainment.
Food Inc. is a documentary that addresses the process that meat companies use to prepare our foods. Meat companies need a mass quantity of animals, in doing that very inhumane ways are brought upon to these animals. Food Inc. concentrated on the feeding of corn to the animals. Corn is a very inexpensive grain. Being that corn is inexpensive farmers feed it to their animals to speed up the production process. Not only are the animals fed corn, the are given other drugs to speed up the process. With this inhumane treatment, the animals tend to be diseased. If an animal that is diseased gets slaughtered, that then is spread to the consumer who has ingested that particular meat. Food Inc went to many different farms for major meat companies, and the conditions of those farms were horrible. After seeing the conditions of the farms, Food Inc. wanted to interview an employee of the company, and in every situation the company denied an interview. I found that ironic, being that many of the farms are treating their animals inhumane, to mass produce for these companies, they wont speak
