SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Agricultural Science, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Impact Factor
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Madeleine : food that connects to a salient personal memory. Why have scholars ignored food in the past : production and consumption. Economy focus on food price, crop science, food marketing. Home: family meal, children diet, how people make bread, food culture. Overproduction on subsidize corn, have a major impact / factor on how we consume as individual. Cheap corn explain why meat is so cheap, because corn is use to feed cow which decreases the cost of meat. Most american can afford to eat meat, not like before only for special occasion. Increase availability of corn (high food cholesterol), also have a link to health conscious, such as the rise of obesity, diabetes: mind body dualism. Our tradition has tended to privilege questions about the rational, the unchanging, and the eternal, and the abstract and the mental: and to denigrate questions about embodied, concrete, practice experience (heldke, in belasco.
