why I chose this topic University of Massachusetts Amherst has been joined “The Real Food” challenge for three years. I’ve seen the posters and boards towards “The Real food” challenge in the dinning hall but without knowing what “the real food” stands for. After doing the research. I getting to know that “Real Food” means the food is grown locally, heathy and sustainable.
This year UMass dining has been ranked number 1 in the nation by Princeton Review. According to the Princeton Review ranking standard, UMass dining stands out based on its delicious, healthy food along with the sustainability management. Not only being a place to serve outstanding food, UMass dining also plays an important role to support local farming. The concept …show more content…
To the side of UMass, they can negotiate with the local farmers to get a competitively low price; Students and school faculty also benefit from the Real Food Challenge because they know where does the food come from. Which means they don’t need to worry about the food safety since they know the people they are doing business with; Meanwhile, food became more affordable and accessible. Local farmers benefits from Real Food Challenge as well because they are able to sell out all their products. Meanwhile they are able to expand their businesses. More job opportunities are available in our community, thus the unemployment people in our community could find a work place to feed their family; In the other hand, local farms started to have more strength to compete with the international corporation which has more mature system (Compare to the local farms and those international corporations which sell their products oversea) and relative low price. Along with the trade globalization, Local agricultural business is suffering from competing with the imported brands. But at this time, they got the promise that their products would be sold out. To farmers, there is one more thing matters to them: healthy. they don’t need to use the chemicals which may ends up do great harm to their
This year UMass dining has been ranked number 1 in the nation by Princeton Review. According to the Princeton Review ranking standard, UMass dining stands out based on its delicious, healthy food along with the sustainability management. Not only being a place to serve outstanding food, UMass dining also plays an important role to support local farming. The concept …show more content…
To the side of UMass, they can negotiate with the local farmers to get a competitively low price; Students and school faculty also benefit from the Real Food Challenge because they know where does the food come from. Which means they don’t need to worry about the food safety since they know the people they are doing business with; Meanwhile, food became more affordable and accessible. Local farmers benefits from Real Food Challenge as well because they are able to sell out all their products. Meanwhile they are able to expand their businesses. More job opportunities are available in our community, thus the unemployment people in our community could find a work place to feed their family; In the other hand, local farms started to have more strength to compete with the international corporation which has more mature system (Compare to the local farms and those international corporations which sell their products oversea) and relative low price. Along with the trade globalization, Local agricultural business is suffering from competing with the imported brands. But at this time, they got the promise that their products would be sold out. To farmers, there is one more thing matters to them: healthy. they don’t need to use the chemicals which may ends up do great harm to their