SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Columbian Exchange, Oligopoly
13 Oct 2016
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Week 5 historical origins of the modern food system. The traditions" that we associate with the way we grow, process, distribute, prepare, and eat our food were in large measure constructed by the larger social and economic processes such as colonialism, development, and globalization . Human societies survived on different parts of the world for thousands of years: depended on their ability to respond effectively on the ecological, social, and political challenges that they faced. Food system refers to the growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consuming, and disposing of food (structure system) Strengths profitable, efficient, cheap, good job, productive, safe, unbound by space and season. Has emerged during the 500 years of expansion of a capitalist world economy. Industrialization, urbanization, globalization are processes all shaped by the capitalist economy as a world system. Spread of production has destroyed or transformed many of the previously existing forms of production (hunting, peasant agriculture)
