GGR107H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods
11 May 2018
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Professor Sarah Wakefield Sept. 30, 2016
GGR107 LECTURE 3
CRITICAL THINKING & FOOD SYSTEMS
OUTLINE:
• What does it mean to think critically?
• Introduction to FOOD SYSTEMS
• The rise of the DOMINANT food system in Canada today
CRITICAL THINKING
• The ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or believe
• Includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking
• Reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do
• A PRIORI REASONING
- Arguments based on pre-existing knowledge
- Defining TERMS
- Logical ARGUMEBTS based on proven (or accepted) premises
- arguments based on FIRST PRINCIPLES
• A POSTERIORI REASONING
- Arguments based on observation
- QUALITATIVE (anecdotes/examples, testimony and “expert opinion”)
- QUANTITATIVE (experimentation, statistical information)
• MORAL/ETHICAL/AESTHETIC REASONING
- Arguments based on values
RACIALIZATION
• The process through which “race” (and its associated meanings) is attributed to someone
or something
THE FOOD SYSTEM
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Document Summary
Outline: what does it mean to think critically, the rise of the dominant food system in canada today. Critical thinking: the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or believe. Includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking: reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do, a priori reasoning . Logical argumebts based on proven (or accepted) premises arguments based on first principles: a posteriori reasoning . Quantitative (experimentation, statistical information: moral/ethical/aesthetic reasoning. Racialization: the process through which race (and its associated meanings) is attributed to someone or something. Sept. 30, 2016: a food system consists of structures, networks, processes, and practices through which the production, transformation, communication, circulation, representation, consumption, disposal and recycling of food takes place. Farms are organized into plots with boundaries. Single crops are cultivated (monoculture; limited biodiversity) Farm work is a paid job (rather than a part of one"s contribution to society)
