HISTORY 15F Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cloven Hoof, Cud, Genetically Modified Food
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10. 4 lec2: for early human beings or their ancestors, food was primary the sustenance to sustain the body. Choice was limited, the first significance expansion of food choices and supplies : the mastery of fire. -- advantages of fire use (food easier to digest; enhance the stability of food supply; shorten the time needed to obtain meal; expanding the range of food ; free up time for other activities) -- engels: in order to survive, a society must produce a sufficiency; in order to create a culture, it must produce a surplus. -- this surplus enabled people to have choices in food; -- and the development of culture played a crucial role in shaping people"s food choices and habits: food choices shaped by religious beliefs. -- polluted means, physically, (cid:862)adulterated,(cid:863) and (cid:862)false claims(cid:863). This has always been a concern in the us and throughout the world. It led the first federal legislation on food and creation of the.
