Food systems

life, people now begin to concern more about the effectiveness of the current food system, and whether doing everything we can to get as much food as we can is really the best for us in a long term. Birke Baehr, an 11-year-old boy, gave a speech on TED titled “What’s wrong with our food system” due to his passion for a healthy food system for both human beings and the animals. He effectively argued that our food system right now is not in its ideal state, because the sale-oriented marketing and…

Global Food Supply system vs. Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) The food supply chain explains the processes of production, processing, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Whereas the short food supply chain associates to the geographical distances or numbers of links in the supply chain (Friedmann & McNair, 2008, 248), involving the different schemes of direct sale from farmers to consumers. As Marsden et al mentions in the analysis of three main types of short food supply chain:…

Chagnon seems to think their hunters and gathers/ horticulture tribes and he doesn't see them as an isolated tribe. Yanomami 3 different types of foods system are basket vegetable food serving, plant and animal food/ some seasonal. Gardening (planting seeds fruit and vegetables), Foraging (seeking plants, animals, fruits and vegetables). Gaming (Just and all out hunting for animals/meat). When the men prepare to go gaming for some fresh meat to eat they take a nice long journey to capture the…

The current food production system is designed to produce food at an affordable price by producing food in masses on a small amount of land, however, hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity. (Huffington post) This system was developed with the purpose of lowering cost, while at the same time increasing profits by a significant amount. This may be a strategy for those companies merely looking to increase business profits, however, the wellbeing of customers, environment and…

The agricultural food system in the United States is dynamic, not only because of the different practices, but also how men and women interact and are viewed within the system. Men and women have specific roles within the food system, which is mostly due to cultural practices. Learning and understanding how men and women are treated differently will give us a better insight on the agricultural system. With this knowledge, we can works towards equality and defy the classic gender roles within the…

imbalances create our eating habits. Most people who want to change their food consumption dependency tend to have complications changing or improving due to the cravings. To prevent these kind of issues we have to comprehend how our brain works to know what would be best to our health. In an interesting research article called “Health and Pleasure in Consumers’ Dietary Food Choices: Individual Differences in the Brain’s Value Systems” (later to be referred as Health and Pleasure) mentioned…

Living Off the Food Systems Three distinct food production systems make up our everyday food choices. Some Americans will never move past the very first food chain where little connection exists between nature and the plate. In Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, he walks through and explores each food chain in detail. Pollan holds a strong desire to closely experience every aspect of the processes and origins of the food that humans eat. His introduction explains what the book’s…

To heighten the understanding of the current service system of Chipotle Mexican Grill, the objective of this project is to analyze one of the fastest consumer generative restaurants located on Yonge Street, downtown Toronto. The purpose of this study is to improve customer satisfaction of this restaurant by reducing the waiting time of the queue while keeping the operational cost at a minimum. In order to validify the experiment, data was collected for three consecutive days during peak lunch…

Consequently, the food literacy is covered by the brands and marketing of convenience products. Convenience engender human autonomy become confined and the disappearance of ‘vigour knowledge and competence’ as people as dependence on the convenience products (Belasco, 2008, p. 56). From the value, communication, and the material of convenience shows direct connection with cooking that communicates more negative effects, which is contrasting with gastronomy. It is evident that convenience food is…

troubling find can be explained using systems theory, with particular emphasis on the theories’ notion of entropy, categorized by disorganization, chaos, stagnation, and eventual death (Robbins, 2012). Using systems theory, a system is looked at as a whole but can be broken down into interdependent, yet autonomous parts. It’s essentially systems…