Globalization Food Origin

Global Change

Globesity and Food Origin

Lachlan Muir 7.04 - May 20, 2016Globesity

Food OriginGlobalisation Definition

Globalisation is the process of which our world is undergoing. This process is the process of our world coming closer by sharing goods, culture and food. With the technological advances of transportation, information sharing and social media this process has been accelerated. It can bring countries closer together or split them apart. Globalisation is neither good or bad but depends on the people who use it and how it is used. It is countries coming together to start to work together against what they believe to be bad. E.g. ISIS, poverty, crime, slavery, etc. This groups can be found in all every day lives. Here are a few

Many products can make it hard for consumers to find out where the ingredients come from. Some products even put misleading labels on them like ‘Made in Australia’, ‘Product of Australia’, etc. This can mislead a few consumers into thinking that it is completely from Australia. But since the incident of 28 Australian being infected by Hepatitis A from frozen berries from China this has become a big talking point because of this incident. Some of these infected people didn’t even know that the berries came from overseas as it was not clear on the front that it came from overseas. The Government released a few weeks later about the idea of trying to help Australian consumers by telling them how much of the product is Australian or is imported from overseas. The Government did this as a counteraction against the Hepatitis A incident. Now that the public know about this idea there has of course been conflict. Some people say that there isn’t enough information on the new label while some producers say that it will be too hard as when they have to source their products from different locations because of different reasons like season change that it will be too hard to change the

Many developing countries where food was scarce are now having people on the mass craving fries. This is becoming a big problem for many countries in the past few decades. In Mexico, Mexicans drink an astonishing half a liter per day of carbonated drink, e.g. Coca-Cola, Fanta, Pepsi, Lift, Solo, etc, more than any other country in the world. In China after their long isolation from the outside world, fast food chains have been opening up replacing other healthier, traditional foods. In Brazil, there is a Nestle boat that visits all of the small poor villages up along the Amazon River. It allows the locals access to pretty much all of the processed foods you can think of. In India, diabetes clinics all over the country are seeing the same problem. More and more Indian people are being diagnosed with diabetes. Researches are thinking that because they are not used to the high sugar, high cholesterol diets that they are in an even bigger risk at being diagnosed with this disease. These developing countries obesity rate is increasing a very fast rates which have many people worried but western countries are still the obese champions. The most terrifying thing is that the kids of the next generation are having to shoulder this unhealthy foods.Comparing Globesity and Food