Food Industry

A Food Industry is an industry for food production.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Sustainable Food Industry to being Unsustainable Food Industry.
  • It can range from being a Industrial Food Industry to being a Home Food Industry.
  • It can range from being Local Ingredient Food Industrys to being Imported Ingredient Food Industry.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Manufacturing Industry.
• See: Agriculture, Insurance, Business, Subsistence Farming, Hunter-Gatherers, Agriculture, Crop, Livestock, Seafood, Manufacturing, Agrichemicals.

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References

2019

• (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/food_industry Retrieved:2019-2-11.
  • The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, and hunter-gatherers can be considered outside the scope of the modern food industry.

    The food Industry includes:

    • Agriculture: raising crops, livestock, and seafood.
    • Food-related Manufacturing: agrichemicals, agricultural construction, farm machinery and supplies, seed, etc.
    • Food processing: preparation of fresh products for market, and manufacture of prepared food products
    • Food-related Marketing: promotion of generic products (e.g., milk board), new products, advertising, marketing campaigns, packaging, public relations, etc.
    • Wholesale and food distribution: logistics, transportation, warehousing.
    • Foodservice (which includes catering)
    • Food-related Retail/Grocery, farmers' markets, public markets and other retailing.
    • Regulation: local, regional, national, and international rules and regulations for food production and sale, including food quality, food security, food safety, marketing advertising, and industry lobbying activities
    • Education: academic, consultancy, vocational
    • Research and development: food technology.
    • Financial services: credit, insurance.

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