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Avocados have become a super trendy food, but few of us know how they're even grown or harvested. We visit a California farm to uncover the amazing story of the avocado — and share the secrets to choosing, ripening and cutting the fruit. Via Dawn Haas Tache 
M Sullivan's curator insight,
July 23, 2017 12:00 AM
An insight into how avocados are grown.
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"Follow America's favorite vegetable from field to factory — to see how potatoes grow and how they're turned into chips."
Sophie Wilson's curator insight,
August 31, 2016 10:33 AM
This video shows the process of potatoes moving from farm to factory in America and how they are turned into chips. It shows how the potatoes are planted, grown and turned into chips.
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PepsiCo calculated that the equivalent of 3.75 pounds of carbon dioxide is emitted to the atmosphere for each half-gallon carton of orange juice. Via Luke Walker
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October 6, 2014 11:58 PM
PepsiCo (which owns Tropicana Orange Juice) measures the amount of carbon emissions it takes to create a half-gallon of orange juice. |
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Amazon’s zero-profit strategy is a disaster for anyone who goes up against it.
Mr Mac's curator insight,
June 22, 2017 9:35 AM
Unit 5 - Commercial Agriculture, Agribusiness, Food Distribution; Unit 6 - Services, Distribution of Services, Service and Technology
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"To be honest I do not know what they make of my beans," says farmer N'Da Alphonse. "I've heard they're used as flavoring in cooking, but I've never seen it. I do not even know if it's true." Watch how the Dutch respond to a cocoa bean in return or you can watch our entire episode on chocolate here. Via mrhill
Martin Kemp's curator insight,
December 17, 2015 3:12 PM
how do these people not know what the crop they are producing is or tastes like? that is amazing to me how you can be so oblivious to what you are doing. and how the place that produces cocoa does not actually have access to it. 
BrianCaldwell7's curator insight,
April 5, 2016 8:15 AM
What is the geography of chocolate like? This video was produced in the Netherlands, the global center of the cocoa trade, but the world's leading producer of cocoa is Côte d'Ivoire. There is a dark side to chocolate production; the dirty secret is that slavery is commonplace on cocoa plantations in West Africa. Although the worst of the situation is glossed over in this video, it still hints at the vast economic inequalities that are part and parcel of the global chocolate trade and the plantation roots of the production. What are some of your reactions to this video? Tags: chocolate, Ivory Coast, Africa, poverty, development, economic, globalization, industry, labor. 
Stevie-Rae Wood's curator insight,
December 9, 2018 4:30 PM
Chocolate is linked to modern day slavery in Africa. The cocoa bean is a billion dollar industry where westerners have the luxury of enjoying while the Ivory coast farmers have the sad fate of cultivating. Most farmers on the Ivory coast do not even know what the cocoa bean is made out of or what chocolate tastes like. Chocolate is a luxury on the Ivory coast because it is hardly available and very expensive. They simply are trying to make a living off of a highly consumed, taken for granted item in wealthy countries. We only see the pleasure behind the cocoa bean not the horrors it actually comes with.
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"One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is imported and often of lower quality. Why? Author Paul Greenberg says it has to do with American tastes." Via LEONARDO WILD, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
HazelAnne Prescott's curator insight,
July 31, 2014 10:56 AM
Seems like a messed up system. We do not have "taste" 
Abigail Mack's curator insight,
July 31, 2014 11:27 AM
What would make Americans opt for the lower quality, imported fish?
BrianCaldwell7's curator insight,
March 16, 2016 3:45 PM
The United States exports the best-quality seafood that Americans catch, but import primarily low-grade aquacultural products. This is just one of the counter-intuitive issues withe U.S. fish consumption and production. This bizarre dynamic has cultural and economic explanations and this NPR podcast nicely explains these spatial patterns that are bound to frustrate those that advocate for locally sourced food productions.
Tags: food production, industry, food, agriculture, agribusiness, consumption, economic, sustainability. |
