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Brand Comparison For Electric Programmable Pressure Cookers, Susan Haws, Teresa Hunsaker, Debra Proctor, Ellen Serfustini, Karin Allen
Brand Comparison For Electric Programmable Pressure Cookers, Susan Haws, Teresa Hunsaker, Debra Proctor, Ellen Serfustini, Karin Allen
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This fact sheet shows results of a brand comparisons for four different electric programmable pressure cookers. Cuisinart, Deni, Fagor, and Nesco were tested using five different foods, at four different altitudes.
Partially Hydrogenated Oils And Trans Fats Information For Consumers, Karin Allen
Partially Hydrogenated Oils And Trans Fats Information For Consumers, Karin Allen
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Companies have been given until June 2018 to remove PHOs from the foods they produce, or to petition the FDA to allow specific uses for trans fats. The FDA has not banned trans fats. But what does that mean? And how will it change the foods we eat? To help consumers understand the FDA's actions, this fact sheet looks at three questions: What is trans fat? What are PHOs? What will replace PHOs?
Syllabus: Sustainable Living: Solutions For The 21st Century, Laurie Simmons
Syllabus: Sustainable Living: Solutions For The 21st Century, Laurie Simmons
Sustainability Education Resources
Your generation has been handed an opportunity: the opportunity to change the story of our culture from one of blind consumption to one of conscious ecological living. As individuals, as a society and as a species, we are facing challenges related to sustainability including economic stability, social justice, resource depletion and waste management, biodiversity preservation, climate adaptation and food and agricultural resilience. In this interdisciplinary course you will learn how to seize this opportunity by working with your peers to research and understand how sustainability in different contexts presents solutions to many of these challenges facing modern society. “Sustainable Living” …
Three Essays On Food Demand, Land Use Intensity, And Food Crop Portfolio Choice Under Weather Risk, Aditya Raj Khanal
Three Essays On Food Demand, Land Use Intensity, And Food Crop Portfolio Choice Under Weather Risk, Aditya Raj Khanal
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Food security and adaptation to climate change has been an important research and development agenda in most of the development organizations and in the national policy of developing countries. The most vulnerable population from climate change and food security problems are rural and agricultural households in the developing and low income countries. Weather and climatic factors and food security has a direct link with poverty because a large majority of poor live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. The primary focus of this dissertation is to analyze consumption and production aspects of the rural agricultural households. …