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Change is constant in today's businesses. Discuss how changes in the American economy, labor force, and social patterns have affected the ways that people consume food in our society.

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Change is constant in today's businesses. Discuss how changes in the American economy, labor force, and social patterns have affected the ways that people consume food in our society.

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American food consumption patterns have changed due to many factors in the last few decades. For example, socio cultural changes such as nuclear families or smaller households, increasing number of two earner households, changing lifestyle patterns such as less time for food and increasing stress at work resulting in busy lifestyle among urban population and increasing ethnic diversity have resulted in increased consumption of packaged or processes foods. People do not have time to cook and thus, are increasingly relying on packaged and ...

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