Chapter 12 Flashcards
(55 cards)
food companies spend more than ____ annually to promote their products
- much promotion for
- advertising for ___ are almost non existent
- $10 billion
- poor nutritional product
- fruits and veggies
who are increasingly targets of advertisers
college-aged and young adults
much of your food comes from
small, family run American farms
what do you have to do to be a farm in the US
must produce and sell at least $1000 of agricultural products/year
where are most farms located
midwest, great plains and california
fewer than __ american farmers produce food for population of ___
1 million; 300 million
challenges of farming
- high cost
- demand for low food prices
- competition
- dependence on nature’s cooperation
computers/internet allow for
-government subsides for
- precision agriculture
- commodity crops
agribusiness
- definition
- food portion includes
blending of agricultural and business entities that affect how food, clothes and home goods are developed, processed, distributed and purchased
-food production, agricultural chemicals, finance and trade, management, environmental considerations and land development
agricultural sector employs ___ of US pop
-what compromises a large share
- less than 1/6
- food processing companies
top 3 food crops in the US
corn, soybeans and wheat
worlds largest corn producer
-# of bushels from # of farms in corn belt
-10 bil; 7,400,000 farms
% of worlds soybeans from ___ US famrs
50%; less than 290,000 US farms
% of worlds wheat from ___ farms in great plains
10%; less than 160,000 farms
most staple crops are used for
animal feed, not humans
dominant food animals in US
cows, pigs and chickens
exporting foods
- good
- bad
- US farmers help feed world
- exporting unhealthy eating habits
US farmers help feed world
-__ of farm income from foreign trade
-30%
exporting unhealthy eating habits
- shift to ___ diet
- leads to
- high cal, high fat diet
- globesity (growing incidence of obesity worldwide) becoming a threat
food production in the US
- __ of food in US is imported
- type of food that is imported
- about ___ of fruits and nuts are imported
- 17%
- most fish and shellfish
- 39%; 2 bil worth of bananas anually
in the past few decades vegetable imports have ___
-most coffee is from
- doubled: fruits, juices, nuts up by 20%
- colombia and brazil
importing foods
- 2 primary reasons
- 2 problems
- demand for variety of products year round
- demand for cheap food
- demand for variety of products year round
- environmental costs of long distance shipping
- potential for food contamination overseas (pesticides)
- environmental costs of long distance shipping
how are natural resources used internally and externally?
- internal cost
- external cost
- used internally to produce food and used externally to transport food to consumer
- water, nutrients, etc
- carbon emission (greenhouse gases) and climate change
food may travel ___ miles or more
-how much % of food dollar goes to transport
- 1500 miles
- 12%
