Understanding Food Systems: Agriculture, Food Science, and Nutrition in the United States explores the complex and evolving system from which the United States gets its food. From farm, to home, and everything in-between, the authors use a scientific perspective that explains the fundamentals of agricultural production, food science, and human nutrition that will guide readers through the issues that shape our food system, including political, societal, environmental, economic, and ethical concerns.
Presenting the role and impact of technology, from production to processing and safety, to cultural and consumer behavior perspectives, the book also explores the link between food systems and the history of nutrients and diet patterns, and how these influence disease occurrence. Current topics of concern and debate, including the correlations between food systems and diet-related diseases, such as obesity and diabetes are explored, as are the history and current status of food insecurity and accessibility.
Throughout the text, readers are exposed to current topics that play important roles in personal food choices and how they influence components of the food system.
Key Features
- Presents the evolution of the US food system, from historical beginnings, to current consumer and political roles and responsibilities
- Provides farm to fork insights on production and consumption practices in the United States
- Explores complex topics in call-out boxes throughout the text to help readers understand the various perspectives on controversial topics
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- About_the_Authors
- About_this_book
- Assignments
- Carbon footprint assignment.doc
- Corporate responsibility assignment.docx
- Food Safety Modernization Act assignment.docx
- Food insecurity assignment.docx
- Food system engagment.docx
- Labor issues by state assignment.docx
- Local healthy sustainable food system assignment.docx
- Marketing foods to kids assignment.docx
- Nutrition policy brief assignment.docx
- Personal nutrition assessment assignment.docx
- Processed foods assignment.docx
- Secretary of agriculture assignment.docx
- Learning_activities_and_discussion_topics
- Agriculture across the US.docx
- Animal housing 360o perspective.docx
- Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture.docx
- Case study contaminated eggs.docx
- Clean Label slide presentation.docx
- Creating a Food Truck Operation.docx
- Ethical Perspective on Animal Housing.docx
- Food Ingredients.docx
- Food additives good-bad perspective.docx
- Food tax debate.docx
- GMO Labeling Debate.docx
- GMO news article.docx
- GMO vs organic farming practices.docx
- Healthy eating market campaign.docx
- If we ran the food system.docx
- Migrant labor ethics.docx
- Nutrition Education and Nutrition Policies.docx
- Progress in Agriculture.docx
- Raw milk cheese case study.docx
- Reducing Food Insecurity policy brief.docx
- Solving obesity solutions.docx
- Survival activity.docx
- Unauthorized Farm Workers.docx
- Resources_for_instructors
- Slide_decks
- Chapter 1 - Ethics and Scientific Thinking.pptx
- Chapter 1 - Introduction to food systems.pptx
- Chapter 2 - History of food production.pptx
- Chapter 3 - Modern agriculture.pptx
- Chapter 4 - Animals in agriculture.pptx
- Chapter 4 and 6 - Food laws and regulations.pptx
- Chapter 5 - Human labor in agriculture.pptx
- Chapter 6 - Food Additives.pptx
- Chapter 6 - Food safety.pptx
- Chapter 6 - Food technology.pptx
- Chapter 7 - Food insecurity.pptx
- Chapter 7 - History of nutrition.pptx
- Chapter 7 - Obesity and food marketing.pptx
- Chapter 8 - Agriculture and environment.pptx
- Chapter 8 - Sustainable food systems.pptx
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