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…
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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…
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…
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…
Change Management
An essay I wrote last semester on the change initiatives of the USDA Food Guide pyramid. A lot of technical information, but also a lot of good information. Enjoy! There are few certainties in life like change, summed up from one of my former employers with, ‘the only things certain in life are change, death…
GMO’s and Globalization
Globalization is defined as extending to other or all parts of the world, the development of worldwide integration. Developing countries are considered as having a standard of living or level of industrial production below what’s possible with financial or technical aid; a country that is not yet highly industrialized. (Dictionary, 2019) This essays purpose is…