SOSC 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Habitat Destruction, Overconsumption
25 Apr 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
How the main products we buy and the foods we cultivate and eat affect the environment, individual health and society. Modern agriculture is based on the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Consumption rates differ between industrial and non-industrial nations. Our consumption of goods is a function of our culture not all cultures are consuming resources at the same rate. Even though it is generates destruction we have become dependent on a growing mass consumption because it is the basis of economic stability within the current global capitalist system. Problems of beef and sugar production and consumption and environmental depletion, human health consequences. How our food choices are products of the culture industry - eating for pleasure (taste, texture and food addictions) versus eating for nutritional requirements of a healthy body. Big sugar" is tied to numerous sectors of economy and the production distribution sales chain, thus it is institutionalized.
