SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Profit Margin, Food Desert, Cash Register
Document Summary
State/institution-focused food activism: community discussion about institutional change Local food plus cettified uoft worker conditions point, has made a policy change. Uoft policy change, started in class made change institution change in the policy @ school board level food activism (ethical), state focused everyone benefits. If your making changes in your day to day food practices organic and local. Problem: anorexic/bulimic viewed as an illness and influenced by diet culture . Personal responsibility: anorexic: little responsibility and overweight viewed as personal responsibility their fault. Ethnic and racial minorities are portrayed as uneducated in need of education, viewed from elite upper class. Typical ethnic and food culture promote overweight, need to be educated (moralization) elite classes are in a position because they know best, teach the poor to eat better. Idea that women is to restrain yourself, metaphor sexual predator. Obesogenic environment: environment that promotes weight gain and is not conductive to weight loss.
