Chemici a chemičtí inženýři mají velké zásluhy na pokroku v potravinářství a zemědělství. Jejich objevy nám umožňují pěstovat, sklízet a konzumovat dostatek výživných potravin.
Chemists and chemical engineers have made plenty of contributions to food and agriculture, which allow us to raise, harvest, and consume abundant and nutritious food. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century, an average kitchen table would be loaded with produce from the root cellar, garden, or local farm; butter from a churn; eggs from hens penned in the backyard, vegetables from the garden, and meat stored in an icebox and cooked over a coal or wood stove.