GE CLST M71A Study Guide - Final Guide: Food Sovereignty, Neocolonialism, Seed Saving

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST M71A
• Professor: Rensel, M.A.; Le Goff, A.G.; Panofsky, A.L.

Document Summary

Understand and analyze: ways technology can be political. Resistance movements: the argument about how biotechnology (gmo seeds) can lead to economic dependency and ecological degradation. Economic dependency because will become dependent on the seeds, herbicides, fertilizers, which lead to unsustainable uses of resources that are already there, such as water and land. Also, will need money to buy seeds, machines, and energy. Affects the need for people to work (labor force) because of the use of machines means fewer people are needed to do the same job. Ecological degradation because of the increased used of herbicides and fertilizers, which are artificial crop enhancers. Chemicals contaminate the soil and water sources with toxic chemicals that are detrimental to health: historical relationship between agriculture, industry, and property relations. Bowman vs. monsanto: signing no seed saving contracts. Property relations: property of nature but also property of intellect. Feudalism: aristocrats owned the land and peasants worked on the land, agriculture = wealth.