SOSC 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Meat Industry, Vegetable Oil, Food Security
23 Nov 2017
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In the second chapter of the ecological hoofprint: the global burden of industrial. Agriculture, author tony weis explores the inequality that lies within meat consumption as well as the role of animals as food transitioning to becoming a necessary food we eat over the last decade. His main argument is that the meatification of human diet has grown to be considered vital to capitalist modernization and development. This is because the constant increase of livestock production and consumption were driven by the need to expand economic growth in the realm of agriculture and good (weis, 71). Weis also talks about the geographical distribution of the industrial grain oilseed livestock complex, which brings forth the idea of only 1 billion out of 7 billion people in the world having food security. The root cause of all these issues leads to meat as food being commoditized.
