SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Food Marketing, Food Policy, Convenience Food
5 Dec 2018
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Old and new food concerns: actors in food marketing: advertising, large corporations are doing the advertising, processed food vs ultra-processed: chocolate bars, chips, etc. Industrial farming vs alternative food systems that want to overthrow it. If we want our food to be strong we need diversity. Causes of new food system: state-led agriculture, trade liberation. International trade: become more dependent on imports and exports. If the market and economy is free to do what they want it will allow individual freedom as well etc: the market does not see that, ethnicity, class, race, etc, neoliberalism started in the 60s and 70s. Liberalism: the market and economy should exist but the government should make the final decisions. Liberal: give food stamps so people can have food. If the economy is left alone it will benefit us the most. Neoliberal core ideas: deregulation, little obstacles as possible to get rich.
