Consumer
* Many consumers also think all low-fat foods are more healthful
  - are concerned with security and privacy when shopping online
  - believe that spoiled food causes foodborne disease
  - buy organic food because farmers grew the crops without pesticides
  - express concern about the amount of sugar they eat
  - have an important role to play in preventing food borne illnesses
  - still believe that all fats are bad and unhealthy
* More consumers mean less of the fixed available stock of goods to be divided among more people.
* Most consumers are concerned with price and quality when buying products
  - assume that pet foods are safe, wholesome products that our pets thrive on
  - believe that foodborne illness occurs somewhere other than the home
  - feed on multiple species and are, in turn, fed upon by multiple other species
  - probably use astragalus to prevent and treat colds and other minor diseases
* Most consumers use cigarettes as a calming agent or to ease the side effects of medication
  - echinacea to prevent and treat colds, and to help heal infections
  - essential oils for their aromatherapeutic properties
* Some consumers are concerned about preservatives and additives used in processed food.
* Some consumers eat different kinds of producers
  - herbivores
  - only plants, they are called herbivores
  - feed on living plants and animals
  - respond to financial pressures by spending money in irrational ways
* account for two-thirds of all economic activity.
* also are confused about the fat content of individual foods and the overall diet.
* are a driving force in the healthcare system
  - also citizens, many of whom live in towns
* are animals that eat producers or other animals
  - another classification of living organism
  - anything that eats
  - classified by the type of food they eat
* are concerned about food cost, food safety, and food production
  - the relationship between their food and health
  - every organism that eats something else
  - grouped according to the type of foods they eat
* are heterotrophic organisms that eat food produced by another organism
  - within the food web of a community
  - heterotrophs that feed on tissues of other organisms
  - objects or applications that use data provided by the other two kinds of objects
  - only two-thirds of the economy
  - organisms that depend on other organisms for food
* are organisms that eat or consume other organisms
  - other organisms, or food made by other organisms- an animal
* are organisms that feed off of other organisms
  - on other living things
  - get their energy by eating other living or once-living resources
  - have to eat other organisms for food
* are organisms that obtain food and the energy stored within food by eating organisms
  - their food by consuming other organisms
  - organisms, such as animals, that feed on producers and other consumers
* are people who use goods and services
  - services, voluntarily or involuntarily
  - with money to spend
  - statistics, customers are people
* are the animals that eat the food the producer makes
  - most intelligent people in the world
  - ones that eat the producers
  - people who evaluate and pay for goods and services
  - users
* benefit when foods are abundant.
* can have large impacts on other organisms
  - influence the outcome of competition between species
* comprise the largest interest group in the economy.
* depend on producers or other organisms for their food.
* do alter their buying habits as new products come into being and lifestyles change.
* eat other animals, plants, or protists
* eat the foods produced and decomposers recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem
  - plants, and thus, indirectly obtain their energy from the sun
* get energy by eating other living things
  - ingesting other organisms or the remains of organisms
  - their energy and materials by eating other organisms
* have a profound influence on how products are produced
  - freedom of choice also, as do workers and owners of resources in general
* is an user
* means mental health consumers.
* obtain energy by eating other organisms.
* play a key role in the functioning of the economic system.
* refer to customers, partners, suppliers and employees.
* search engine for information about consumer safety and consumer protection.
+ Food chain: Foods
  * A 'food chain' shows the feeding relationship between different living things in a particular environment or habitat. Often, a plant will begin a food chain because it can make its own food. Organisms that can make their own food are called producers. Consumers are animals that eat producers or other animals. The animal that eats the producer is called the primary consumer. The animal that eats the primary consumer is called a secondary consumer. The animal that eats the secondary consumer is called a third order consumer and so on to fourth, fifth, etc. The direction of arrows between the organisms shows who eats what.