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Food production in 1946 – 48 was only two-thirds of the prewar level, while grain and meat shipments – which usually supplied 25 % of the food – no longer arrived from the East.
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This campaign is linked to the recognition of the detrimental environmental effects of meat production, which the United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization has established to represent nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Category: Food production companies of the United States
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the following production of unprocessed tobacco by country in 2009 ( figures are in thousands of tonnes.
Food production was only two-thirds of the prewar level in 1946-48, while normal grain and meat shipments no longer arrived from the East.
After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, were awarded the license to produce the product in the UK ( doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool ), where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group ( owners of the Tulip Food Company ) in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.
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Rearing a relatively small number of grazing animals can be beneficial, as the Food Climate Research Network at Surrey University reports: " A little bit of livestock production is probably a good thing for the environment.
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Food was in desperate shortage, and production fell dramatically.
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Food production had increased fourfold and sugar cane production had increased 15-fold between 1895 to 1925 and Taiwan became a major foodbasket serving Japan's industrial economy.
** Food technology – branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) reports that world production of cabbage and other brassicas ( these plants are combined by the FAO for reporting purposes ) for calendar year 2010 was.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) reports that world production of cabbage and other brassicas ( these plants being combined by the FAO for reporting purposes ) for calendar year 2010 was.
In February 1994, rBST was approved by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) for use in the U. S. It has become common in the U. S., but not elsewhere, to inject it into milch kine dairy cows to increase their production by up to 15 %.
Food and 1946
Food shortages were severe, especially in the harsh winter of 1946 – 1947.
The Civic Auditorium ( later the Opera House, now McCaw Hall ), the ice arena ( later Mercer Arena ), and the Civic Field ( rebuilt in 1946 as the High School Memorial Stadium ), all built in 1927 had been placed there based on that plan, as was an armory ( the Food Circus during the fair, later Center House ).
In 1946, it became the first prescription antihistamine approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ).
According to the book Food for the Heart: The Collected Writings of Ajahn Chah, he chose to leave the settled monastic life in 1946 and became a wandering ascetic after the death of his father.
* Trader Vic's Book of Food and Drink ( 1946 )
In the post-war years Podgorny regained his old office of Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Ukrainian SSR, but was later appointed in 1946 as a Permanent Representative to the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.
Before serving as the president of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the constitution, he had served as Minister of Food and Agriculture in the year 1946 in the Interim national Government.
Maxwell Kohl, who had previously operated traditional grocery stores, built his first supermarket in 1946, the first in what would become a southeastern Wisconsin chain known as Kohl's Food Stores.
Member of the Imperial Legislative Council ( 1934 – 1936 ), Minister of Public Health and Religious Endowments ( Madras Presidency ) ( 1937 – 1939 ), Minister of Food and Public Health ( Madras Presidency ) ( 1946 – 1951 ).
Dr. Yeoh Eng Kiong, GBS, JP (, born 1946 in Ipoh, Malaysia ) was the Secretary for Health and Welfare between 1999 and 2002, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food and a member of the Executive Council between 2002 to 2004 in the Hong Kong Government.
The Wakefern Food Corp., founded in 1946 and based in Keasbey in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey ( United States ), is the largest co-operative group of supermarkets in the United States.
During World War II, however, he was recruited to the civil service as deputy head of the British Food Mission ( 1941 – 1946 ), where he was principally involved in the procurement of food supplies-most notably dried eggs.
He was also chairman of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, a director of Lloyd's Bank and served as head of the British Food Mission to the United States between 1941 and 1944 and as the Treasury representative to the United States between 1944 and 1946.
Tomislav Petrak ( born 1946 ), a Ph. D. in veterinary science a professor at the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology in Zagreb, member of the Party since its founding in 1997, was its candidate in the Croatian presidential election, 2005.
As Minister of Food in 1946, he was involved in the abortive Tanganyika groundnut scheme.
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* Wright, F. A., " The Food of the Gods ", The Classical Review 31. 1, ( February 1917: 4 – 6 ).
* 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.
* 1928 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman, founded the Jimmy Dean Food Company ( d. 2010 )
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center – best known as simply " The Center " – has occupied the former Food & Maritime Trades High School at 208 West 13th Street since 1984.
** Food irradiation – A technique for preserving and improving the safety of Food, WHO, Geneva, 1991 ( revised )
), Food irradiation – Principles and applications, Wiley Interscience, N. Y., 2001
* Food & Water Watch – food irradiation page
* 1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
* 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
* Wilhelm Niklas ( CSU ) – Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry
* Heinrich Lübke ( CDU ) – Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry
* Heinrich Lübke ( CDU ) – Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry
* 13 September 1959 – Werner Schwarz ( CDU ) succeeds Lübke as Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry.
* Werner Schwarz ( CDU ) – Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry
* 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
* 1945 – Harvey Mandel, American musician ( Pure Food and Drug Act and Canned Heat )
* 1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
* 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
* World Food Day – October 16
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