SOC 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Corn Syrup, Marvin Harris, Meat Industry

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2080
• Professor: Anthony Winson

Document Summary

Marvin harris: what is good to eat is good to sell" -> commodification of food in capitalist era. Use value is it unique: value: sustenance, taste, entertainment, culture, and exchange value (commodity nature, monetary value) Ways to look at food: history (food history is something more new)/anthropology of food (developed, within anthropology food directly reflects culture bread and butter , corn and the maya. Corn syrup cheap to make into sweetener. Corn for animal feeds, and most agriculture is for creating animal feed (meat industry dominating what the land is used for) Privilege and icon food part of that culture: rice and asian cultures. Why is it the case we do not know anymore traditional canadian anglo- Hindu caste culture: a person acceptable for the table is acceptable for the marriage bed . Dairy industry at danger with possibilities of a new trade.