GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Plant Patent Act Of 1930, Primitive Accumulation Of Capital, Genetic Use Restriction Technology
Document Summary
Deepening understanding of how obesity is produced. Patel: consumers are constrained by choices" and access to healthy food. Those who are more affluent have more access to healthy food. Different races and classes eat about the same number of calories. How the genes are expressed changes how it is viewed. Argues that we need to think about the body as a site where biological and social constantly remake each other. Lifestyle of industrialized countries (cars, white-collar jobs) is much different than non-industrialized countries (farming, physical labour, walking, biking) Epigenetics: not about mutations but about environmental effects on gene expression (toxins) Evidence of decreased physical activity is inconclusive (gym, dieting) Capitalism started in the countryside; peasants before capitalism. Produced goods for subsistence and others (clothes for sale in market) Landlords/office-holders extracted surplus from peasants mainly in the form of tax/rent. Capitalism produced late in human history, not natural.
