ANTH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fishing Vessel, Harpoon, Food Security
13 Nov 2016
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Complex transnational circuits of economic, political and cultural interconnectedness and competition time-space compression or the reordering of time and space. Acceleration in the flow of capital, goods, images and ideologies. Commodities (such as food items) therefore acquire a particular value or importance they are routinely used to articulate both place and movement, and through those, identity and identification. (bell and valentine 1997. The global food fight: the battle for and against gm crops two faces of the. Genetic modification of plants and animals has been with us for a long time. Recent technology genetic transformation, transgenic or gm is a more precise method. Gm technology has enabled plant varieties that are sturdy and utilize materials that do not harm the people and the environment. Only u. s. farmers have been able to reap the benefits of the technology in a more systematic far reaching manner. In 1999, gm seed boom u. s. 74%,
