14: Food Politics and Perspectives
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In this chapter, food politics, sustainability, the food industry, food security, and diets from around the world are explored.
- 14.3: The Food Industry
- Agriculture is one of the world’s largest industries. It encompasses trillions of dollars and employs billions of people. In the United States alone, customers spent about $500 billion annually on food products at grocery stores and supermarkets. The food industry includes a complex collective of businesses that touches on everything from crop cultivation to manufacturing and processing, from marketing and advertising to distribution and shipment, to food regulation.