Now, beyond table scraps, store-bought dog food is nearly impossible to distinguish from human food.
The biggest hazard of atmospheric tests was that radioactive fallout would get into the human food chain.
Or what if the transgenic animals somehow got into the human food chain?
The other rule sets out guidelines for "preventive controls for human food" and would require companies to have plans for foodborne illnesses.
In 1798, Malthus argued that human population always grows more rapidly than the human food supply until war, disease or famine reduces the number of people.
She also said the news was a "very serious development" and demanded action to ensure that "illegal and carcinogenic horsemeat stops entering the human food chain".
John MacGregor, Agriculture Minister 1987-89 was meanwhile attacked for covering up the fact that experts were advising their concern of BSE-infected meat entering the human food chain.
Bute is not allowed to enter the human food chain.
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Two years ago, after the government banned the risky bits of cows from the human food chain, Canadians were urged to do their patriotic duty and eat more beef.
Nor have smaller firms been much impressed by the recent bungling in America by Aventis, a Franco-German group whose genetically modified maize has mysteriously found its way into the human food chain.
Five years after Parliament agreed suspect cattle parts (brains, spinal cords and other offal) should be kept out of the human food chain, beef carcasses ready for the butchers' shops were found with the offal still in place.
President Obama has proposed replacing the regular consumer price index, or CPI, to adjust Social Security benefits with the chained CPI -- often called the cat food CPI because the index assumes that when the price of human food rises, seniors can substitute cheaper food to get the same nutrition.
So far, the charity has rescued nearly 30, 000 hens, which otherwise go into the human or pet food chain after slaughter.
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This is not the first time in human history that food shortages looked like they would be the motor of violent geopolitical change.
The replacement of draft animals by machines released about 25% more land for growing food for human consumption.
Without these single-cell organisms we would not, for example, have an atmosphere that supports human life or digest food efficiently.
Among its proposed powers will be the responsibility for monitoring the safety and standards of all food for human consumption.
Similarly we have controlled verminous creatures and predators for the sake of human disease control and food since before records began.
They involved the operation of an unlicensed slaughterhouse, and included "the production and placing on the market unsafe food for human consumption".
During a World Cafe at Planet Under Pressure, business leaders will call on the assembled scientists to re-direct their science to address the business problems their organizations face in tackling ecological degradation, human wellbeing, and food and energy security.
The heirarchy of human needs is key here - - food and shelter are more important than a human need to feel loved and happy.
But some food companies are using cell lines that were originally derived from human fetuses in order to develop new food products.
Chassy is professor emeritus in the department of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois.
Water affects all living systems and many things we need: energy generation, biodiversity, food security, human rights, health, sanitation.
When genetically modified corn not made for human consumption got into the food supply in 2001, there were many reports of allergies.
And it became widely accepted that children require nurturing human beings not just for food and protection but also for the normal functioning of their brains.
The virus has been detected in live poultry in several food markets where human cases have been found, leading officials to think people are most likely contracting the virus through direct contact with infected fowl.
No, the statement is not that access to a computer at home is a basic human right, along with food, shelter and clothing that the rest of us must stump up taxes to pay for.
Since no plausible evidence has yet emerged of risks to human health from eating GM food, the environmentalists' main remaining objection is that GM plants may cross-pollinate others, spreading their alien genes to other species with unpredictable environmental effects.
Why did we listen to environmental activists and become the first nation in human history to burn up its food supply to power automobiles?
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