ANT100Y1 Lecture 3: Culture-Lecture 3-The Price of Progress-Feast and Famine Mar 12 2009
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Lecture 3: the price of progress: feast & famine. N way culture limits choices we exercise when we decide what we are going to eat. N changing fundamental ways of humans organized themselves socially, politically biologically: labour, far more human nature is needed when you shift from foraging to domestic farming. N positives: occupational specialization www. notesolution. com, urban living. N how we produce food agriculturally in the cotemporary world. N mid 20th century (farming in euro, na, aus, nz) started to change due to new fuel (oil/petroleum) N machinery is obvious way farming became more depended on oil. N machines adopted in greater number (replaced human labour- efficient) Fertilizers (nitrogen- comes from air, nature gas must be burned in order for the nitrogen to be used) N huge surpluses of food with very little human labour. :9:70- capital intensive, large scale farms, not competing with other land uses (building cities, highways)
