SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fast Food, Nutritionism, Intensive Animal Farming
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16: making wise food choices: labeling, advertising, and the challenge of informed eating. The modern global food system has emerged in the last 500 years. Since wwii, we see an increasing intensification of this process. Throughout the 20th century, we see an increase in world population and migration from rural to urban areas. Feeding these large populations became a major concern of governments and international agencies. Large urban populations who are unable to produce their basic needs meant a big market oppourtunity for the food processing and retail sector. During this period we see mordernization of agriculture, continued industrialization of food processing and distrubtion sectors, and expansion of global economic relations. Ensuring affordable food required higher yields in farming, increasing efficiency and rationalization of the food processing, retailing and restaurant industry (fast foods). Throughout most f the 20th century, an accumulation strategy called, fordism prevailed.
