SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: North American Free Trade Agreement, United States, Consumerism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Donna Appaoo

Document Summary

Introduction: historians and anthropologists most important change in human history was the domestication of plants and animals that started around 15,000 bce (before the common era) complete by 5000 bce, changes that occurred slowly over 10,000 years a revolution, deep, restructuring changes that have a monumental impact do take a long time, evolution combines the mechanical, chemical, and bio tech revolutions together enable global capitalism to increasingly enter and control the food system. Second revolution agriculture becoming capitalist: the united states food provisioning system center of this revolution, corn is the largest and most important crop grown in the united states, united states is the core of the global food system as the most dominant and most capitalist power within the system, other countries within the system have varying degrees of power and practice capitalism to different degrees (i. e. cuba is one of the least integrated into the global capitalist food system, and canada is one of the most )