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Consumer Views on Health Issues Arising from Food Products
Published in Megh R. Goyal, Preeti Birwal, Santosh K. Mishra, Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants in Food Design, 2022
Harita R. Desai, Murlidhar Meghwal
Organic farming is an eco-friendly farming that is conducted without harmful chemicals in food production thus aiding to maintain a balance in the ecosystem [24, 75]. With the advent of agricultural boom, the exorbitant utilization of fertilizers and pesticides has become a way of agricultural trend worldwide. The setting up of the “International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movement” has led to the government regulations on organic farming since 1972 [72, 73].
History and challenges of Brazilian social movements for the achievement of the right to adequate food
Published in Emily E. Vasquez, Amaya Perez-Brume, Richard G. Parker, Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America, 2020
Ana Carolina Feldenheimer da Silva, Elisabetta Recine, Paula Johns, Fabio da Silva Gomes, Mariana de Araújo Ferraz, Eduardo Faerstein
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Sustainable Development Goals/SDGs), and more specifically, the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) call for national and international efforts for the adoption of participatory, structural, and sustainable solutions that can correct failures, prevent the sabotage of food systems and link sustainable and coherent food production, distribution and consumption methods with health and nutrition. In both agendas, the concept of sustainability goes beyond the environmental dimension and includes social and economic sustainability and equity promotion, in addition to the strengthening of local production and distribution processes. (Dangour, Mace, & Shankar, 2017). It is also important to engage people in expanding their concerns from the individual benefits of foods to a broader recognition of the systemic effects of their eating practices on planetary health, and of other dimensions of eating such as its socio-political transformative act.
Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914–2009), M.S. Swaminathan (1925–), and Green Revolution
Published in Krishna Dronamraju, A Century of Geneticists, 2018
Borlaug believed that genetic modification of organisms (GMOs) was the only way to increase food production as the world runs out of unused arable land. GMOs were not inherently dangerous “because we’ve been genetically modifying plants and animals for a long time. Long before we called it science, people were selecting the best breeds.” In a review of Borlaug’s 2000 publication entitled “Ending World Hunger: The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry,” the authors argued that Borlaug’s warnings were still true in 2010.
Daily motivational text messages impact on college students’ nutritional awareness and physical activity levels
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Kholoud Hardan-Khalil, Christine B. Costa, Dennis G. Fisher
The study survey was comprised of three parts: (1) demographic information, (2) health and diet, (3) and physical activity. Permission to use the study measures was secured from the tools’ original authors. The demographic section questions elicited information about participants’ race, gender, perception of general health, height, and weight. The second part of the survey was a series of questions focused on health and diet and used the 2015 Food & Health Survey: Consumer Attitudes toward Food Safety, Nutrition & Health which was developed by the International Food Information Council Foundation to measure Americans’ attitudes and behaviors around food, health, and nutrition.24 According to the International Food Information Council Foundation, the survey has a special focus on examining millennials’ opinions on healthful habits, the use of resources and information for staying healthy, and the value of certain nutrients.25 The 2015 Food & Health Survey: Consumer Attitudes toward Food Safety, Nutrition & Health consists of five sections (a) health and diet, (b) dietary components, (c) food production, (d) sustainability, and (e) food safety.24 The study used only the first part of the survey-health and diet- that has a special focus on understanding the extent to which college students’ value and prioritize their own health.
Endotoxin-induced cytokine, chemokine and white blood cell profiles of variable stress-responding sheep
Published in Stress, 2021
D. Naylor, A. Sharma, Z. Li, G. Monteith, B. A. Mallard, R. Bergeron, C. Baes, N. A. Karrow
Sustainable livestock production is a major theme in animal agriculture. The increasing demands on food production from a rapidly growing human population require that animals maintain high levels of production while minimizing strain on natural resources and maximizing health and welfare. Despite this, many livestock breeding programs have prioritized high production, but this results in tradeoffs with health and functional traits (Rauw et al., 1998) and results in animals that are more susceptible to stressors (Rauw, 2012). This breeding concept is incompatible with sustainable livestock initiatives. Consequently, breeding strategies are being adjusted to include a more balanced selection of production, conformation and functional traits to increase the resiliency of livestock (Mormède et al., 2011). The outcome of increased resiliency is to minimize the negative effects of stress by enhancing the ability of an animal to rapidly return to a pre-stress state (Berghof et al., 2018). Identifying and developing animals that are resilient to stressors will contribute to a more sustainable livestock production system.
Chemical composition and insecticidal activities of the essential oils and various extracts of two Thymus species: Thymus cariensis and Thymus cilicicus
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2021
Selçuk Küçükaydın, Gülsen Tel-Çayan, Mehmet Emin Duru, Memiş Kesdek, Mehmet Öztürk
Based on increasing the world population rapidly, scientists have focused on the rising of food production and crop loss caused by agricultural pests in recent years (Kordali et al.2007). Rhizopertha dominica and Callosobruchus maculatus are the most common storage pests, which cause qualitative and quantitative damage to stored grain products such as contamination, loss of grain weight, quality, nutritional value, germination ability as well as an economic loss (Usha Rani 2012, Moazeni et al.2014). Phosphine and methyl bromide fumigants have been used for many years to control stored pests (Usha Rani 2012). Nevertheless, methyl bromide has been determined as a major contributor to ozone depletion, and there have been findings that some insects have developed resistance to phosphine (Montzka et al.2011). Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say known as Colorado potato beetle is the most destroying pest of potatoes, eggplants, and tomatoes all over the world (Kesdek et al.2015). Synthetic insecticides are commonly used in the fight against Colorado potato beetle, but intensive insecticide applications lead to the problem of residual toxicity in plants.