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AQA English Lit 'Moon On The Tides' Relationship Poetry Analysis Notes
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The contemporary global food system provides northern consumers with unprecedented choice in the supermarket and a diet adapted to today's lifestyle. So what are the grounds for criticising it?
The contemporary global food system provides northern consumers with unprecedented choice in the supermarket and a diet adapted to today's lifestyle. So what are the grounds for criticising it? Anti-globalisation protests from Uruguay to Seattle, widespread concern for the environment, almost daily news items on food-related health issues and the plight of the developing world, coupled with the multitude of authors who have published volumes critiquing the global food system suggest that there may be valid grounds for criticising the food system in existence in the world today. The issues covered range from matters relating the individual such as deteriorating health standards and shifts in cultural norms to global issues such as large scale environmental degradation and the ever-increasing gap between the rich and the poor. Today's consumers live a life whereby there is a seemingly wide choice of food items on supermarket shelves at their fingertips; literally, with the progress made in internet shopping. The following document shall attempt to explore the different sources of this criticism in an attempt to provide a justification for the oppositions to the contemporary food system. A brief overview of lifestyles in the industrialised countries and history of the global food system in the periods that have seen the most rapid changes; post World War II, provide a platform
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What Christian teachings would you include in a booklet on warfare.
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