HREQ 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Food Security, Via Campesina, High Fructose Corn Syrup
16 Dec 2014
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Even though mass consumption generates destruction we have become dependent. Big sugar" is tied to numerous sectors of economy and the production . Problems of beef and sugar production and consumption from environmental. How our food choices are products of the culture industry - eating for pleasure. How the main products we buy and the foods we cultivate and eat affect the. Modern agriculture is based on the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and. Consumption rates differ between industrial and non-industrial nations. The history of sugar production is tied to colonialism, environmental destruction, slavery and forced labour, forced migration and displacement, forest and animal habitat destruction etc. and produces a sensation of well being for short the term. Grain fed (versus grass fed) beef consumption and health consequences heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, over consumption of hormones and antibiotics, mad cow disease, e coli poisoning etc . Sugar is primarily used as a sweetener, a food preservative in bread etc.
