Diets. The Diets will be communicated from Alliance to Grain Processor from time to time and are the exclusive property of Alliance. Feed that is made from the Diets may only be manufactured for use feeding animals owned by Alliance or persons under contract with Alliance, unless prior approval is given by Alliance. The Diets, including all nutritional specifications that are a part of the Diets, are strictly confidential, and may not be shared with any third party without the consent of Alliance.
Diets. (a) TDH will provides premium quality food (in the opinion of TDH) to all Dog(s).
Diets. The fact that diets and agricultural production systems relate to each other is quite obvious; the very nature of this relationship is, however, difficult to characterize, as it is both non linear and reciprocal. While diets have long been influenced by agricultural production – which is most visible in the existence of regional specific diets, as the Mediterranean one – dietary patterns also strong- ly affect production through their impact on demand, both in terms of changes in the quantity and quality demanded for various products and in terms of where and in what form these products are consumed. Moreover, dietary patterns are influenced by a wide range of other variables, whose careful consideration is well beyond the scope of this paper: purchasing power of food, food prices, urbanization and lifestyle, the so-called “globalization of taste”, awareness raising by government interventions and / or civil society organisations, etc. Having said that, one can notice that the nutrition transition theory (Xxxxxx, 1993) well accounts for the kind of evolutions of production systems depicted in section 2.1, characterized by both the domination of productivist and agro-industrial strategies, and the emergence of alternative food networks based on quality. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Western European dietary patterns have gone through the 3rd and 4th nutritional transition described by Xxxxxx. The 3rd transition is characterized by a decline of famines linked to the industrialisation of agriculture, by low variety diets based on starchy staples, and by the growing importance of animal proteins. The 4th one is described as the shift towards sedentary lifestyles, a high consumption of fat, sugar and animal proteins, and the emergence of non communicable chronic diseases. During these transitions, the demand for food was marked by the search for low prices and high caloric food (Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx, 2001), to which agro-industrial and productivist strategies at the farm level were able to respond. The continuous decrease in the expenditure dedicated to food and non-alcoholic beverages as a share of total household expendi- ture illustrates this search for low-cost food. In France, for example, 25% of a total household budget was spent on food in 1960. In 2007, this share had shrunk to 15%. Important discrepancies persist between countries, especially between new and old Member States. In 2008, households in the poorest Member States still spent 20 percent of their b...
