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Rise of Convenience Food
- The focus on supplying troops with convenient foods led to us making easy to eat meals
- These convenient foods included wheat, sugar, fat, and meat.
- Plastic played a huge role in these foods, with the use of plastic quadrupled in this time period.
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The Mainstream of Fertilizers and Pesticides
- With WWII happening at the moment, it changed how food was packaged and consumed
- Farmers found a array of new uses for chemicals as nitrate factories shifted to making fertilizers
- The use of synthetic fertilizer and pesticide is why the crop efficiency increased.
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Natural Foods Movement
- DDT's were banned in the 70's, which kicked off the organics movement
- All of the movements and back-to-the-land environmentalists promoted the use of more organic foods
- These communities included more organic foods like vegetables, beans, grains, and organic fruits
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Genetically Engineered Food
- By the late 70's, most scientists were working on the next technological change in agriculture: Genetic Engineering.
- GE was first used to make a tomato have a longer shelf life, causing GMO crops to cover half of US croplands
- There have also been some concerns including the pesticides that are used to make these GMO foods. The pesticide runoff into our waterways makes it more of a negative than a positive
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Present Day
- In our present day in age, most of our food development doesn't involve the food itself, but the way we transport it.
- In addition to transporting food, scientists today are also focused on preserving seeds that increase biodiversity
- Lastly, Consumers are still demanding for the transparency in the labeling of foods that contain GMO ingredients