SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fast Food, Millennium Development Goals, Energy Industry
4 Dec 2017
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The profits of obesity: type 2 diabetes increases: in 1980: 0%. In 2015: 57: h. osborne and w. buffet i"ll tell you why we like the sugar business, it is very much like the cigarette business. Just like those hard-core drugs, getting off sugar leads to withdrawal and cravings, requiring an actual detox process to wean off. New food-safety regulations: energy industry, food industry & changing the target, technological rationality (mechanization and chemicalization of agriculture): the dynamics of subsidy & subservient of the market, usda & implementing new food-safety regulations, oxfam report: 2016. The hunger of capitalism: the 2 main reasons for cheap food , price is what you pay. Ideology signifies ideas and beliefs, which help to legitimate the interests of a ruling group (class) specifically by distortion of social reality. It can do this, either by falsifying social reality, or suppressing and excluding certain features of social reality.
