SOC 808 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: World Food Summit, Food Studies, Food Regimes
30 Sep 2017
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Meso: local community you, your friends, toronto: grocery and convenience stores. Macro: political economic relations international relations and trade: politics ( war, government, subsidies, economics ( depression, corn prices, prices in general) food production ( corn as cattle feed) The average person on earth today consumes nearly 2x as much meat per year (43 kg in 2012) as did the average person only two generations earlier (23 kg in 1960) (weis, 2015) On average canadians eat two times more meat than people living in japan people and 20 times more than people living in india (fao, 2013) Men eat more meat than women do (on average) (stats can, 2015) If food choices were only individually based, we wouldn"t see these kinds of larger patterns. Community food systems local crops, community cultural foods, eating junk food gardens/farms, meals-on-wheels. A political tool eating local/organic or boycotting certain products.
