GGR107H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Magdalen Islands, Moral Universalism, Seal Hunting
11 May 2018
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Professor Sarah Wakefield Oct. 21, 2016
GGR107 LECTURE 6
MEAT
LECTORE OUTLINE:
- Exploring the ENVIRONMENTAL and SOCIAL IMPACTS of the INDUSTRIAL
MEAT INDUSTRY
- Investigating ALTERNATIVE modes of meat “production”
- Understanding how FOOD CHOICES are embedded within culture
“The Meat of the Global Food Crisis” (Weis)
2 VIEWS OF THE FOOD-POPULATION CONNECTION: NEO-MALTHUSIAN
• Populations grow geometrically, agricultural supplies grow (at best) arithmetically
• Unchecked population growth unavoidably exceeds the capacity of the environment to
handle it, and starvation (etc.) occurs
• Population pressure drives technological change, which in turn results in greater food
production
• Well-fed people with access to education birth control, and opportunities have fewer
children (DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION)
• Not only is the population growing exponentially (to the point where there is a food
crisis); and they increasingly want to eat meat
• How much meat do we really need to eat? (Not that much, if at all, but not every meal or
even every day)
ECOLOGICAL HOOFPRINT (WEIS)
“Framework for conceptualizing the resource budget and MULTI-DIMENSIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN OF INDUSTRIAL LIVESTOCK, in particular how its growth
is implicated in an expansion of the land area, input and energy consumption, GHG emissions,
and pollution load of industrial monocultures.”
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Document Summary
Exploring the environmental and social impacts of the industrial. Understanding how food choices are embedded within culture. The meat of the global food crisis (weis) Framework for conceptualizing the resource budget and multi-dimensional. Environmental burden of industrial livestock, in particular how its growth is implicated in an expansion of the land area, input and energy consumption, ghg emissions, and pollution load of industrial monocultures. Oct. 21, 2016: meat production has a significant impact on the water resource. Mechanization and the pursuit of economies of scale demolished agriculture"s historic organizing imperatives, and substituted an entirely different organizational logic . The cheapness of industrial grains and oilseeds has rested not on the triumph of efficiency, but on a host of hidden and externalized costs (weis) Meatification of diets has long been held as a goal and measure of development and marker of class ascension, it should instead be understood as a vector of global inequality, environmental degradation, and climate injustice. (weis)
