SOC 808 Lecture 13: Sociology of Food and Eating
18 Jan 2019
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Sociology of food and eating day 13. Cban: canadian biotechnology action network, organization that has its finger on the pulse of developments around biotechnology in. The stop community food centre: confront the underlying issues that lead to poverty/hunger. Hunger: politicized word for reduced access to food, food insecurity: In the 1990s, the cost of living is rising dramatically in canada, especially in ontario. When everyone has the right to: healthy and culturally appropriate food (produced through ecological sound and sustainable methods, define their own food and agricultural systems. Food sovereignty"s goal: help eliminate the problems caused by the food crisis, food crisis: when prices of most important traded food crops increased drastically, wheat, soya, rice, maize. Responses to hunger and food insecurity: community-based responses, charitable food assistance, children"s nutritional programs, community food security initiatives, government responses, social assistance, seniors" benefits.
