GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Asthma, Avocado, Wasabi
7 Dec 2017
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Ch 1: semiotics of food; need and greed; culinary ignorance. Localism: buy your foods that are produced locally, buy from manufactures, farmers and etc. If you want to eat local foods, then you pay more for it: locally food tastes better and there is no guarantee that any food is fresher or better. Seasonality: the effort that one should make to restrict one"s diet based on what"s in season rather than eating things that are stored. Alisa smith and jb kennen wrote a book called the hundred mile diet and it was subtitled a year of eating locally . The carbon fallacy if you eat locally, you will be more environmentally possible because the products don"t have to be shipped as far. More fertilizing, not utilizing carbon consumption: agricultural systems produces surpluses that people can use during times of deficiency, our pleasant ancestors were hungry all the time, eating is mandatory and also has cultural significance.
