Food Industry
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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):
- See: Agriculture, Insurance, Business, Subsistence Farming, Hunter-Gatherers, Agriculture, Crop, Livestock, Seafood, Manufacturing, Agrichemicals.
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.
- 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.