ANTB64H3 Chapter Notes -Medicalization, Food Addiction, Anemia
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Between obesity and hunger: the capitalist food industry -robert albritton. Cheap food is important to cap. bc it allows for wages to be lower + profits higher and leaves workers with disposable income in order to buy other avail. commod"s. Capitalism is connected to colonialism where various types of forced/semi-forced labours was common. End of civil war, slavery abolished, thus domestically-prod. food system came to rest on fam. farms. Fam. farms changed a/f wwii w/ increasing mech. and chem"s which fav. larger farms. Same situation today where majority of farms receiving these subsidies are large ones prod. only a few things like corn; other farms get nothing. * capitalism has been the single strongest force shaping the global food system, and much of that shaping power has flowed outward from the us. People champion consumer sovereignty but corp"s are the greater sovereign force.
