At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, there were various impacts on global food supply chains, including on food systems workers. Media reports documented COVID-19 outbreaks among food systems workers in the United States, however due to the ongoing nature of the pandemic, a...

Die Corona-Ausbrüche in einigen großen deutschen Fleischbetrieben haben die seit Langem bekannten Missstände in der Branche wieder in den Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt. Mit dem nun vorgelegten Arbeitsschutzkontrollgesetz und dem darin vorgesehenen Verbot von Werkverträgen und...

Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing...

Today, nutrition is mainly discussed under nutritional, medical-health or ideological aspects (e.g. vegetarianism, veganism, etc.). Although the food industry represents one of the most important markets, questions of food production, agriculture, food trade and biodiversity are mostly discussed...

Supply chains for many agricultural products have an hour-glass shape; in between a sizable number of farmers and consumers is a smaller number of processors. The concentrated nature of the meat processing sectors in the United States implies that disruption of the processing capacity of any one...

New Meat Engagements: Cultures, Geographies, Economies -- From Ritual Loss of Life to Loss of Living Rituals: On Judicialization of Slaughter and Denial of Animal Death -- New Geographies of Global Meatification: The BRICS in the Industrial Meat Complex -- From Pastures to Feedlots, from Beef to...

This primary research was conducted in order to find out what was the level of managers' and employees' openness to experience. In addition to this, this research will try to answer the question as to; are there any differences between the managers and non-managers or employees of a certain...

Introduction: the meat industry explains things to us /Jason Hannan --Pink slime is good for you? /Norie Ross Singer --Grieg in the henhouse /Daniel Lees Fryer --Ethical meat from family farms? /Saara Kupsala --Whose land? Whose beef? Marketing beef in Canada /Kelsey Speakman --Colouring outside...

Boar. The Dover Flies -- The Herd : Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor -- Sow. Somos Puercos -- Stimulation : Instincts in Production -- Hog. Lutalyse -- Stockperson : Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt -- Carcass. Miss Wicked -- Biological System : Breaking In at the End of Industrial...

Part I: Safety and the industry -- Introduction -- Providing safe products and food safety -- The meat industry -- Part II: Concerns about animal production facilities -- Producing beef, dairy, and pork products -- The production of chickens -- Wild and farm-raised seafood -- The humane...

The paper presents the synthetic results of research on the evaluation of efficiency of selected food industries in Poland, in the years 2000-2013. A dynamic approach was applied to the studies which were based on the analysis of prices of raw materials, meat products and product assortments of...

Weltweit ist die Fleischerzeugung zwischen 2002 und 2012 um 23 % und in Deutschland um 29 % gestiegen. Die globalen Fleischexporte erhöhten sich im gleichen Zeitraum um 60 %, in Deutschland sogar um 124 %. Deutschland zählt sowohl beim Import als auch beim Export von Fleischund...

Production analysis matters in agricultural economics because technology shapes developments in agriculture as well as in related sectors, such as the food industry. Pro- ductivity and technical efficiency (TE) are key aspects in this context. In empirical analysis, inefficiency can be...

Ernährung wird heute vor allem unter ernährungstechnischen, medizinisch-gesundheitlichen oder weltanschaulichen Aspekten (z.B. Vegetarianismus, Veganismus usw.) diskutiert. Obwohl die Nahrungsmittelindustrie einen der wichtigsten Märkte darstellt, werden Fragen der Nahrungsmittelproduktion,...

The story of Joe Luter and Smithfield -- Cheap labor built on a legacy of slavery -- Lots of pigs, lots of poop, lots of politics, lots of pollution -- The plant opens, the work is beastly, the union fight heats up -- The first union vote -- The plant changes southeastern North Carolina -- The...

1.introduction -- Labor costs and the competitive situation -- Vertical integration and the management of inputs to production -- Knowledge and competitiveness -- Innovation behavior and innovation management -- Markets, trade and globalization -- Conclusions