The Ward family now have more food and their electricity supply has been restored.
"The natural question is whether historically people in the north have eaten more infected food than people in the south, " he said.
As Thomas Hoban, a food sociologist at North Carolina State University, points out, Americans generally have a more relaxed attitude towards food than, say, the French, for whom it is a cultural matter.
Over time, Americans have become more sedentary and food has become much cheaper in relative terms.
Americans have become more educated about food choices in the last five years, and certainly in the last ten.
Now that those exports have helped make the Chinese richer, they have more to spend on food, clothing and shelter.
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There have been fewer food scares, such as mad cow disease, in North America than in Europe and it seems that the public have more faith in their food producers.
In the OBR's view, the lesson of the past two years of disappointments is that the financial crisis did more damage to the economy than we thought, and the eurozone crisis and rising energy and food prices have done more damage on top of that.
He might also have mentioned more careful handling of food by newly wary cooks.
Since its overthrow in 1991, Ethiopians have been able to grow more food, at least in non-drought years.
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Now it is more important to have higher food prices so we have perfect food in the minds of the New Left.
Another 20 staffers are also holed up inside the four-story building, and they only have enough food for two more days, Ali said.
Given that 30%-40% more people have started visiting food pantries since the recession, food banks are now a strategic point of opportunity to improve health for poor families.
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Over the past two years, older Americans have paid more for utilities and food, experienced a decline in housing values, tried to recover from deep retirement account losses, struggled with rising health and prescription drug costs, and faced longer periods of unemployment for those who need to work.
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The two Asian giants are demanding more food (and more types of food), but so far their own farmers have largely satisfied that, so they have not needed to trade much (though that would change dramatically if China were to import wheat this year).
More families in York have received food parcels due to economic hardship according to the Salvation Army.
They have also increased yields to produce more food from the same amount of land, so less wilderness has to be put under the plough.
Changes that have made the food stamp program more generous, along with policies to reduce mortgage debt for low income people, also make it easier to wait for a better job offer or work part-time rather than full-time.
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We also know, anecdotally, of how, in the past decade, millions more Americans have become dependent on food stamps and on jobless benefits (not just for the six-month normal duration, but now for as long as two years).
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More customers are buying as carriers have tried to offer more fresh meals, and airlines are adding food to flights as short as two hours because of rising sales.
Fast-food chains have stumbled as more and more consumers reject unhealthy meals.
Ever more foreign-food restaurants have been popping up, from Indian to Italian.
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Broader reform is needed, advocates have long insisted, as more Americans eat food that is imported, prepared in restaurants and produced at huge plants.
Since 2001, CKP volunteers have recovered more that 2 million pounds of food from dining halls and employed idle kitchens to serve 250, 000 meals annually.
United States government officials say since last year, they have started to more actively track cases of food poisoning through a pilot program in five states.
In North America alone, consumers have eaten more than 3 trillion servings of food that contains ingredients from genetically engineered plants without a single documented adverse reaction.
Moreover, while consumers in North America alone have consumed more than 3 trillion servings of food that contains genetically engineered ingredients, not a single person has been injured or an ecosystem damaged.
Many food and beverage companies have joined the Childhood Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, which promises more responsible marketing practices.
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Buyers of toothpaste or dog food, which have also been subject to safety scares and recalls this year, should have known that more than one-fifth of China's food products failed government safety-tests last year.
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