geo 162 - section 5 meat-based diets plant-based diets
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GEO 162 - Section 5
Meat-baseddiets
Plant-based diets
All students
Foods
Steak was a strong discriminatory variable
Sushi was the second strongest discriminatory variable
The average food likes and dislikes
Famine in Eritrea and Ethiopia (early 1980’s)• Causes were not due to
overpopulation, but instead:• Drought• Civil war and political instability• Confiscation of farmland by
elite classes• Government spending on
military instead of basic infrastructure and livelihoods
• Displacement and resettlement of local agriculturalists
• Food policies sought to enhance food supply in the city versus rural areas
Food 2.0
•Would you eat it?
Pros of GMOs
• Convenience for farmers who can afford them• GMO's have, for now, reduced pesticide use • No major impacts from genetic pollution, the
genetic alteration of non-target organisms, although:• Resistance to pesticides produced by GMO plants
have been found in some insects• Genes that provide resistance to herbicides have
been found in non-target plants • No ‘superpests’ of ‘superweeds’ (yet)
Cons of GMOs• Increased dependence in developed and
developing world upon technology and consumerism around transgenic crops• Have not reduced herbicide use• Round Up ready sees encourage more spraying of Round Up
on crops
• There still remains the possibility of superpests and superweeds and other unexpected outcomes
Documentaries• Make sure to read these short movie
reviews before the test Monday • Darwin’s Nightmare
• The downside of the global commodity chain in tilapia and your love of fish tacos
• Life and Debt• The impacts of globalization and the
neoliberalization of agricultural• Bitter Seeds
• Impacts of the Green Revolution on small-scale farmers in India who could not afford the investment costs in input-intensive agriculture and had few economic alternatives
Tilapia (Nile perch) commodity chain…any problems?
Smithtown Seafood, Lexington KY
How did the neoliberalization of markets with globalization impact local food production for Jamaican farmers and food sellers?
"Invasion"
The first world's got greedy, we're consuming it allThe third world's got hunger and military controlThis unequal balance is a master planOne gets rich from the other's land
They've got it all worked out and we give our consent
They've got it all worked out for Central AmericaThey've got it all worked out for AfricaAnd in our naivety we believe myths and over consumeAnd give them our consent, dying in the shadow of the USALet them eat bullshit, make the land pay
Make a fast deal with the local eliteThen substitute cash crops where once grew wheatBuild a cycle of dependence on a starvation dietWith food as a weapon, workers stay quiet
And multinational names have blood on their brandsFrom taking an interest in misused landsDel Monte, Tate and Lyle, Ralston PurinaCoca-Cola, RTZ and UnileverAll packaging lifestyles for the glamorous westExpand the company, exploit the rest
We are not isolated by distanceBut by greed and our racist historyJust a wall's width awayStill impossible to see acrossThis space in front on me
Is Industrial Food Evil?