SOSC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Forks Over Knives, Zed Books, Food Security
23 Nov 2017
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As/sosc 2000 6. 0: interdisciplinary approaches to social science. Readings: tony weis, the ecological hoofprint: the global burden of industrial livestock. Key terms: meatification of diets, soybeans, arable land, industrial-grain-oilseed-livestock complex; food in/security; free market approach to food security; methane, desertification; monoculture; cattle/capital; black death, automata/ beast machines evolutionary theory, social. Great irish famine (1840s); surplus absorption, surplus disposal, diseases of affluence . Tutorial questions: compare and contrast the maps on pp. How did evolutionary theory disrupt this thinking? (weis, 61: by the start of the twenty-first century the average american consumed 100 times more chicken than at the start of the 1930s.
