HWS 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Technological Utopianism, Food Technology, Overconsumption
13 Jan 2019
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Food is the first o the essentials of life, the world"s largest industry, our most frequently indulge pleasure, the core of our most intimate social relationships. It"s very hard to imagine a positive social experience that does not involve the sharing of food. On a broader level, civilization itself is impossible without food. Agriculture remade the world, both physically and culturally, transforming landscapes and geography, subsidizing soldiers and poets, politicians and priests. We are what we eat -- we are what we won"t eat. Out tastes are as telling to our distastes. Food identifies who we are, where we come from, and what we want to be. Food is also the object of major anxiety, for what and how we eat maybe the single most important cause of disease and death. We can"t live without food, but food also kills us.
