AMS 55 Lecture 16: 6/1/17
23 Jan 2018
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Agenda who"s behind you food: responsibility and power, the food system, scarcity and surplus, production, service. Power shapes responsibility: acknowledging and appreciating the amount of life exchanges: to get your meal from farm to fork. Warren belasco: consumers and producers have power in the food system. Transporting (transportation workers move food by air, truck, train, ship, or barge. May happen at many step and very long hauls. ) Processing (food processors use factory equipment to chop, grind, dry, boil, can, or freeze food to preserve it or to make it more convenient. Processed food often greatly altered from natural state. ) Packaging (workers operate machinery to put food into cans, bags, boxes, or other containers for sale, packaging protects food and helps sell it. ) Retailing eating (people buy, prepare, and eat food. ) Scarcity and surplus: sacristy of food as consequence of poverty is more complicated than seems on the surface, especially when examined through an agrifood system lens.
