GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sustainability, Pesticide Poisoning, Food Security
7 Apr 2018
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Food and the city - food systems, deserts, workers, etc. The food system is a complex set of activities and relationships including production, processing, distribution, marketing, retail, consumption and waste. Most of the food we eat comes from a highly sophisticated industrialized system. Livestock genetic engineering has been made to fit into the slaughter house. E(cid:448)en (cid:449)orkers in food related jobs don t kno(cid:449) (cid:449)here the food has come from, there are independent stores that care about the food and workers, but those are very few and very expensive. Work in the food system is highly precarious, with low wages and few employment protections. Work in the food system has higher rates of toxic chemical injuries than any other sector (pesticide poisoning) Farmworkers often lack the right to organize without retaliation, because they are often excluded from labor law protection. Modern farmer: the high cost of cheap labor.
