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Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
Contributor(s): Fuller, Gordon W. (Author)
ISBN: 0849323266     ISBN-13: 9780849323263
Publisher: CRC Press
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2001
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Annotation: Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry: Catastrophe or Opportunity? describes the major changes in food availability, production, and selection around the world. It focuses on how we got where we are and where we might be going and presents information that decision-makers in the field can utilize.
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Food Science - General
- Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness
- Business & Economics | Consumer Behavior - General
Dewey: 363.8
LCCN: 00046820
Series: CRC Series in Contemporary Food Science
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.35" W x 9.54" (1.25 lbs) 308 pages
 
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During the past, there have been many changes in food availability, production and selection around the world. These changes, such as genetically modified foods, raise questions about their long-range implications. How will they affect the worldwide economics and management of agriculture? food legislation? the environment? the determination of food safety and quality? nutrition and health? Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry: Catastrophe or Opportunity? describes the major changes and answers the questions concerning them. It presents information that decision-makers in the field can utilize on such topics as:

  • Consumers and consumerism
  • Marketing and the marketplace
  • Retailing
  • Nutrition and health
  • Impact of new technologies

    Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry encourages you to set aside the truth of science to consider how political, economic, social, and cultural institutions can work to avoid a possible crisis.