ANTH 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Animal Husbandry, Glycemic Index, Local Food
22 Dec 2020
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Animal husbandry: the use and breeding of animals for purposes that benefit humans. Band: small egalitarian society of food foragers who live and travel together. Carrying capacity: the number of people that can be sustained with the existing resources of a given area. Chemical inputs: synthetic additives such as pesticides and fertilizers that raise the yield of crops in industrial agriculture. City: a settlement supporting a dense population with a centralized government, specialization, and socioeconomic hierarchy. Community-supported agriculture (csa): a direct-marketing program in which consumers pay up front for boxes of fresh produce that are delivered on a regular basis from the farms where it is grown. Confined animal feeding operations (cafos): industrial farming enterprises in which large numbers of animals are prepared for human consumption; the basis of conventional meat production. Conventional: a process of growing food industrial societies that uses pesticides and other chemicals.
