The Human PopulationEssay Preview: The Human PopulationReport this essayThe Human PopulationUnit 2 (DB)AIU Online Virtual Campus11-14-2012Coffee is my food item for this discussion because is developed in over 50 countries globally, and about 30 of these countries generate over 5,000,000 tons of coffee on a yearly basis. Most countries economic success depends on the coffee crop to help keep their economies going. In the USA, the only one place that grows coffee is in Hawaii. (Group, 1997-2003) The country that I choose was India, and it traveled according to Food Miles Calculator at an estimated 7,486 miles. From India to Washington DC and according to Google Maps it will take another 1,417 miles to get from Washington, DC to the nearest grocery store (HEB), and then from this store to my table it will take 1.6 miles with the grand total of 5587.6 miles. (Google, 2012)
The Food Industry
The world’s most powerful and prestigious food companies (USDA, PepsiCo Inc., Mondelez Co., Kellogg’s Co., Heinz Co., Nestle Co., Kraft Foods, Kraft and Kroger) have nearly 50 million employees in the US alone who employ more than 4.8 million people in over 4.5 million jobs. When you consider that the US agriculture industries account for almost $1 BILLION of global GDP it is hard for many Americans to comprehend how they could not invest in their countries just to buy coffee at the grocery store all the time. Even if the US has a food production boom they would not have got the investment they need to build that boom. For that matter they could not have built that $100M economy that would not have cost them a billion dollars billion to create it. For that matter, they would not have provided the jobs required to build it.
The US government’s Department of Agriculture, through the USDA, is the highest paying, most efficient, most profitable public sector employer in the world. All of their workers have never worked for the government (although they have served their country at the state, county and school level, in fact for years), never even worked in the US before earning government wages. Why do they pay for US government contracts when they give so little to the US government? Because it is in their interest.
From the USDA:
A single federal contract provides approximately $1.83 billion annually to the government over 12 years. (Department of Agriculture, 2011)
An entire year’s work and millions of dollars in compensation to the government for over 12 years gives the taxpayer nearly 9 percent of the US overall production budget. (Department of Agriculture, 2011)
The USDA has more money than any other state’s government in the US. According to the USDA in 2011 the total public sector employment for the past eight years is in the $42 billion range. The average pay pay in the USDA is $1.64 with overtime and less than the annual average work force of only 17,300 employees. Most important they receive no bonuses whatsoever. The money that is raised from the government is used to buy its own land, roads, schools, hospitals and the local school system.
An example of the USDA’s massive agricultural production budget for the past ten years is USDA’s $35 billion General Production Program. While this $35 billion program is the largest private sector program the food and beverage industries have been paying for from 2009-2012, there has been no real decrease in the growth of US food production since.
The USDA is estimated to have raised about 9 million pounds of CO2 from agriculture by 2012. Not only that, their government investment into the US food producing industry is so spectacular that even the USDA couldn’t survive without it.
The real reason behind the US food industry’s declining output is due to that much more profitable US contract that is paid to them from the US government. The US government has already taken away hundreds of millions of dollars in US state programs that directly benefit US agricultural producers.
So why wouldn’t you spend taxpayer dollars to create, grow and sell the best US food for the people?
There used to be many different types of jobs in the US from truck driving to manufacturing – but now we are witnessing the highest
A countrys gross habitat manufactured goods accounts for a good part of the international trade. For a developing company it is also an important source of revenue. This is a new conception for many countries on the international trade. Thus, the Industrial Age theorizes to have the financially viable, supporting, and communal importance. For the development of globalization, the international trade would ascend. When a nation generates the services and commodities inside its provinces, the international trade would cap the nation with limitations, and this nation would fail to see the Global trade costly proceeds. In the last part of the 20th century, the major drivers of growth came from the worldwide deal. To develop into wealth and encompass the authority to manage the earth financial system all nations must have a sturdy international trade that would gain the authority. To help stop poverty in the developing nations one of the main suppliers would come from the worldwide trade. (EconomyWatch, 2010)
Trade between countries increased, during the industrial revolution. So transporting fundamental foodstuff around the World quickly developed into vigilantly impossible. The World buy and sell undeveloped crops were valued at $1,035 trillion In 2008, (Wright & Boorse, 2011)
Home rations are new foodstuff raised on farmhouses in close proximity and vended to the farmers market s and the autonomous neighboring superstores. A movement is gaining ground along with the recession that people are beginning to purchase local foods. The local farmers market when they receive the foodstuff to sell to their customers do not have to go far to pickup any of the foodstuff nor do they have to wait days to receive what they need to replenish. When receiving from the local farms they do not have to worry about pollution either as the foodstuff is being delivered. As far as food quality, the local foodstuff is fresher and far more nutritious with fewer preservatives