A Supply Chain Analysis of the Meat Industry Within the food industry is a web of complexities in which we (the consumers) are often inept to the number of challenges it faces. Speculation of the industry seems to have created a harsh bias, breaking the industry as a whole into one conglomerate, not a web…
Category: Food Politics
The Nestle’ Climate Approach
Climate change is such a hot topic and button pusher these days it is hard to separate the bias from the information, and the drama from the conspiracy. While I abhor large companies, especially food companies that endanger human health due to ignorance and greed, it must be acknowledged that this is the reality of…
That Bit about Monsanto and Bayer
This is a combination of 2 separate college works, over 2 different years, where I was analysing product marketing in one, and an analysis of how a company goes international in another. It started with looking for information on how a company with such a bad reputation can continue to market its products. Upon further…
Meat Packers, Globalization, and Food System Corruption
What does economics, technology, business, and politics have to do with food you may ask? Everything. As if 2020 wasn’t eye opening enough, the state of the packing plants and seriousness of the failures in the food system should make us all reconsider how we shop, who we purchase from, as well as our own…
Improving Food and Agriculture Sustainably
It is impossible to be interested in food without having an interest in agriculture, and for me, the passion is fuelled by an interest in both. To challenge one without knowledge of the other is often futile, and in today’s world the correct knowledge is hard to find. Often times agriculture is used as a…
Economics and the Food System -USA
Have we accidentally created an unhealthy and dependent culture through government intervention in the economy and food system? This is an insanely controversial topic and might hit some of you the wrong way. My intention in posting this is not to point fingers and play the blame game, but rather to give stated facts and…