ES 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Food Policy

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ES 200
• Professor: Hilperts Ryan

Document Summary

Policy- set of rules spoken or unspoken that determines how things are run. Policies and the lack of policies have value. We all have policies hat govern our lives at various levels, personal, family, community, institutional, municipality, province, federal. As the size of the level increases, from personal to federal, the nuance, flexibility and specificity decreases. As you move policy from family level to a higher level, it begins to affect the lives of many more people. Food policy concerns how food is produced, distributed, processing and purchasing. Ca(cid:374)ada has (cid:374)o co(cid:373)prehe(cid:374)si(cid:448)e food policy, (cid:449)e do(cid:374) t ha(cid:448)e o(cid:374)e o(cid:448)erarchi(cid:374)g federal policy that talks about all the aspects of food policy. What has shaped food policy in canada, generally shaped by. Philosophy- governments should focus on protection against force and fraud, if nobody is practicing deception, injury or violence, the government should worry about them.