GEOG 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Russet Burbank Potato, Phytophthora Infestans, Luther Burbank

• School: UBC
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 410
• Professor: K A R E N A B K K E R

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Chapter 16 takes the french fry as its object of concern and views the health and environmental concerns associated with its consumption. Specifically, this chapter views french fries through the risk and hazards, political economy, and ethics perspectives. French fries are ubiquitous and uniform around the world, but the human and environmental relationships that have contributed to the production of the potato have changed a great deal over time. This chapter will explore the history of the fry and potato production through the risk and hazards, political economy, and ethics approaches. What a lo(cid:374)g, stra(cid:374)ge trip it(cid:859)s (cid:271)ee(cid:374): culti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d use of solanum tuberosum, from the new world, to the old, and back again: domestication of the potato is not a new phenomenon. The andean people have long crossbred potatoes to find (or select) the most suitable species for human consumption: colonialism is a recurring theme in the history of the potato, from its extraction from the new.