1.  Consider the case of a marketing director for a division of a global food company.

2.  Conversations will focus not on global food supplies and population growth but rather on real business problems.

3.  Hernandez works in the corporate communications office for Unilever, the second-largest global food company.

4.  It set up a global affairs department two years ago that analyzes environmental matters, the global food situation and other issues the agency once gave little attention.

5.  Reading the labels makes it clear how enmeshed we all are in global food and corporate agriculture.

6.  The question of how safe gene-altered foods are is at the heart of an escalating global food fight.

7.  The scientists made the discovery while exploring how to help protect global food supplies from mice and rats.

8.  Privately held, Virginia-based Mars makes snack foods and ice cream as well as global pet food brands including Pedigree and Whiskas.

9.  Biotech products such as insect-resistant crops and vaccines born of gene-splicing are touted by proponents as guarantors of future global food security.

10.  Not to mention drastic climatic changes which can upset the planting seasons and could even play havoc with global food production.