Sentence examples for food thousands from inspiring English sources

So local has become the new organic, helped in large part by a growing concern over the environmental impact of transporting food thousands of miles.

BAGHDAD REVIVING -- Hundreds of shops reopened, residents were out shopping for food, thousands of Iraqis showed up for work in offices and stores, scores of police officers were back on the streets and honking, sprawling traffic jams reappeared at major intersections.

Food Lifeline provides food thousands of people through hundreds of emergency feeding programs including food banks, hot meal programs and shelters.

[M]any people have latched onto the local-food movement, billing themselves "locavores," as an antidote to the energy used to transport food long distances and the energy intensity of large-scale industrialized agriculture... Strangely enough, shipping food thousands of miles can sometimes require less energy, emit less carbon dioxide and do less environmental damage.

Sheneberger said he then watched as the police gathered tents, sleeping bags, bicycle generators, raw food, thousands of books from the group's library and countless other belongings, and then threw the property into the open mouths of several New York City sanitation trucks waiting by the sidewalk.

It's only when I visit family in Chicago in the dead of winter and see the sad looking strawberries in the fridge that I suddenly remember what the rest of the country is dealing with: a centralized, industrialized food system that wastes 10percentt of the total U.S. energy budget shipping our food thousands of miles from where it was grown.

Well, this year the Review gave Stevens the back of its hand, saying it was ranked 13th in "most unhappy students," 9th in worst campus food, 7th in having the fewest class discussions and tops in a category entitled "professors get low marks".

Dietary coding utilised McCance and Widdowson "Composition of Foods" (6th edition) food codes and nutrient composition was evaluated using WISP 3.0 (Tinuviel Software) for GI and GL values [ 29].

7 11 The EPIC-Norfolk FFQ uses 290 foods from the UK food composition database, McCance and Widdowson's 'The Composition of Foods' (5th edition) and its associated supplements.

19 The nutrient database is based on McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods, 5th edition, 20 updated with the supplements to that edition, new data from the 6th edition and manufacturers' data.

Rasmussen et al.'s model uses results from the Danish dietary survey in which a 7-day prospective food recall method was used to calculate the daily intake of micronutrients from nonfortified foods (95th percentile) and energy intake (95th percentile) [ 25].