ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Overfishing, Luxury Goods, Brand Equity
30 Mar 2015
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Film, big sugar highlights: 1) legacies of colonialism (eg. dominican republic"s sugar cane plantation industry and exploitation of haitian migrant workers); 2) environmental implications of sugar industry; 3) the power and influence of sugar lobbyists. Does great damage to the environment (pesticides, requires lots of flat lands, Cattle are costly economically and for the environment. Cattle consume 80% of grain produced in north america. 2/3 of grain exports used to feed livestock in other countries. Environmental destruction require pasture, which leads to deforestation and. Beef and the hamburger as distinctively american the advent of fast food restaurants. By early 1960"s, it was the meat of choice for americans. So the taste for beef goes beyond individual food preferences. Beef use to be a status item only consumed by people who had money. Beef was not widely consumed until the growth of suburbs, the automobile and. The intensification of worldwide interconnectedness and exchanges at economic,
