GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Convenience Food, Incapital, The Columbian Exchange
18 Nov 2020
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Industrial scale food production and its implications for the environment and society through the lenses of political economy, risk and hazards and social construction. What makes it amenable to industrial production. Tension is demonstrated by expanding markets for fries. Convenience food, also known as (tertiary) processed food - food that is commercially prepared (often through processing) to optimise ease of consumption. Uniformity and predictability in production and consumption. Surplus: produce as much surplus value or profit as possible. Globalization and potato reliance on one particular cultivar, the russet burbank. Globalization ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become increasingly integrated through a global spanning network of production and consumption and exchange. The characteristics of the russet burbank potato. The potato as monoculture the cultivation of a single crop in a given area. New world old world new world.
