SOC349H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Microorganism, Listeria, Agribusiness
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Uneven bounty: more food available today per person on a global scale than there ever was, cannot explain persistence of hunger and undernourishment, 1. 5x what we need for everyone on earth to have a nutritious diet. Assessing the ecological footprint of industrial agriculture: agriculture is a major part of humanities "ecological footprint" Industrial methods transformed the nature of farming and exact a mounting toxic burden: climate change and biodiversity loss. Every family had a cook, and moms usually bought and prepared food. Margarine didn"t exist, and there was no snack food or frozen food. There was no restaurant chains, and fancy food was entirely french: back in those days, there was no philosophy of food. You just ate, vitamins had not been invented. People grew and ate food: from the 30s on, roads expanded, fresh food became easier to travel more, and suburbs took over farmland, the death of family farms is part of this puzzle, thus arrived, convenience.
