GGR329H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: World-Systems Theory, Intensive Animal Farming, Thesis Statement
11 May 2018
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Friday, January 19, 2018
GGR329 LECTURE 2
GUEST LECTURE:
Ayla Fenton on “Food Sovereignty and International Peasant Movements”
Podcast Analysis:
- 12 Secret Ingredient episodes to choose from
- Content: thesis statement, summary, discussion (relating episode to course themes),
concluding thoughts
- Minimum of 3 academic references
REVIEW:
• Blend of commodity studies and World Systems Theory
• Two regimes aligned with British and U.S. hegemony; debate over ‘corporate’ regime
• Systemic lens: governance, power, politics
• Industrial Food System
- Economics of scale, mechanization, standardization
- Through-flow process
- Industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex
- Metabolic rift
• Consequences: factory farms to climate change
• Fisheries → parallels with industrial agriculture
• Discussion on the advantages of the industrial food system
Industrial Agriculture:
- Plants and animals should not be separated in farming
- It isn’t natural
- It could produce a higher quality product as well as being better for the environment
Farms in Transition:
- Someone needs to take over the land and practice responsible stewardship and healthy
food production
- Question is if you produce more expensive independent organic foods, who will buy
them
- From 1926-present, corporations have gathered 98% of the wealth that is generated on
Canadian farms – Canadian farmers DO NOT get direct subsidies, like they do in the
United States
- Where are the profits going? The corporations which control all of the profits from food
production and food processing, on an international level
Farm Income Crisis:
- Governments are encouraging farms to mechanize, in order to make more profit
- But they’re not actually making more profit – still, the policies encourage this to happen
Food Systems by Design…
- Early 1900’s → focus on control of Western Canada and export of grain
- 1920’s → first grain handling co-ops
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Document Summary
Ayla fenton on food sovereignty and international peasant movements . 12 secret ingredient episodes to choose from. Content: thesis statement, summary, discussion (relating episode to course themes), concluding thoughts. Review: blend of commodity studies and world systems theory, two regimes aligned with british and u. s. hegemony; debate over corporate" regime, systemic lens: governance, power, politics. Industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex: consequences: factory farms to climate change, fisheries parallels with industrial agriculture, discussion on the advantages of the industrial food system. Plants and animals should not be separated in farming. It could produce a higher quality product as well as being better for the environment. Someone needs to take over the land and practice responsible stewardship and healthy food production. Question is if you produce more expensive independent organic foods, who will buy them. From 1926-present, corporations have gathered 98% of the wealth that is generated on. Canadian farms canadian farmers do not get direct subsidies, like they do in the.
