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− | + | ====Major Questions==== | |
− | :* | + | :*What is Food? What is Food desire? |
− | ::* | + | :*What is Eating? |
− | ::* | + | :*How does Food Culture change us? How have we been changing Food Culture? |
− | ::* | + | :*Why is Food Ideology so irrepressible? What drives it? |
+ | :*Who are the baddies? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY] | ||
+ | ::*Justice issues | ||
+ | ::*Health issues | ||
+ | ::*Environmental issues | ||
+ | ::*Other Food ethics: consumer responsibility, vulnerable populations (kids and dietary disease prone) | ||
− | : | + | ====Tannahill, Food in History, Chapter 4: First Civilizations==== |
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− | :* | + | :*Pattern of Empire, Food, and Early Agriculture: soil degradation, conquest, food crisis, famine |
− | ::* | + | :*1st almanac: 2500bc |
+ | :*grain cakes, leavening, bread and beer. Note imp. of wheat threshing technology to making leavened bread. | ||
+ | :*Pastoral nomads vs. Agriculturalists. resurrection myths vs. dynamic warrior gods. | ||
+ | :*Meat, blood, and diet in the Bible and religion | ||
+ | ::*specific hypothesis: Bible originally enjoined vegetarianism (?) | ||
+ | ::*general hypothesis: Food and diet are tied to conceptions of purity. original vs. current triggers | ||
− | + | ====Gratzer, Terrors of the Table, Chapter 10, Fads==== | |
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− | :: | + | :*more on biblical vegetarianism: 17th century theorists, Tolstoy, Shelley, 7th Day Adventists |
− | + | :*Graham, (Caleb Jackson's "Granula") Kellogg and the invention of modern cereals | |
− | + | :*Johanna Brandt's grape cure, fasting, veg, raw food, museli, uric acid, Salisbury steaks (3 lbs a day with warm water!), yogurt, Fletcher, vitamins, laetrile | |
+ | :*Note: pace of fads seem to increase with discovery of vitamins. Note: celebrated scientists not immune. | ||
− | + | ====Moss, Salt, Sugar, and Fat==== | |
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− | :* | + | :*Focuses on story of the "cereal wars" -- 1st sig. late 20th effort to take on industrial food industry. |
− | ::* | + | :*Reprise of cereal invention (note dyspepsia was the problem to cure, but was itself a dietary condition) |
− | ::* | + | :*Growth of industry: 1970 to 1980s: 660 million to 4.4 billion. |
− | :: | + | :*Dentist (Ira Shannon) blows the whistle, nutritionists agree: is it cereal or a confection? Is |
+ | :*Politics of the Cereal Wars: Gov't regulation, social engineering, addiction, marketing to kids. | ||
+ | :*Business strategies: direct marketing to kids, relabeling, changing appeal (sugar as brain food), p. 85: consumption capitalism (read) | ||
− | + | ====Pollan, In Defense of Food==== | |
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− | :* | + | :*Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants |
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− | :* | + | :*A lot of what is in the grocery store isn't really food (evaluate in discussion) |
− | ::* | + | :*Changes in Food Culture: |
− | + | ::*displacement of traditional authorities with gov't, science, and industry advice. "Nutritional Industrial Complex" | |
− | ::* | + | ::*upper middle class food culture: gourmet recipes and variety |
− | ::* | + | ::*when, where, and how of eating has changed. |
+ | :* Pollan's claim: Food is also about community, spirituality, our relationship to nature. | ||
+ | :* Story of the McGovern Commission: start of politics of nutritionism. "No bad foods" and "No Bad Diets" become politically necessary beliefs. | ||
+ | :*Nutritionism: the reductive and uncritical use of nutritional science to support an ideological and unhealthy view of the nature of food and the way to make food choices. | ||
+ | :*Nutritionism leads to a food politics in which food producers can manipulate our consumption choices by engineering food which is fundamentally unhealthy but which appears as a relatively healthy choice. | ||
+ | :*Food fads are fueled in part by nutritionism: cholesterol, fortified unhealthy foods, lipid hypothesis. | ||
− | + | ====Possible Paper Prompt==== | |
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+ | Evaluate the critique of the modern American food system implicit in the video and reading for today's class. Is there a problem with our food system? If so, what are the main sources of the problem and what should be done about it. If not, where do you find a basis for skepticism or criticism of the critics? |
Latest revision as of 00:47, 3 December 2014
Contents
DEC 2
Food Philosophy
Major Questions
- What is Food? What is Food desire?
- What is Eating?
- How does Food Culture change us? How have we been changing Food Culture?
- Why is Food Ideology so irrepressible? What drives it?
- Who are the baddies? [1]
- Justice issues
- Health issues
- Environmental issues
- Other Food ethics: consumer responsibility, vulnerable populations (kids and dietary disease prone)
Tannahill, Food in History, Chapter 4: First Civilizations
- Pattern of Empire, Food, and Early Agriculture: soil degradation, conquest, food crisis, famine
- 1st almanac: 2500bc
- grain cakes, leavening, bread and beer. Note imp. of wheat threshing technology to making leavened bread.
- Pastoral nomads vs. Agriculturalists. resurrection myths vs. dynamic warrior gods.
- Meat, blood, and diet in the Bible and religion
- specific hypothesis: Bible originally enjoined vegetarianism (?)
- general hypothesis: Food and diet are tied to conceptions of purity. original vs. current triggers
Gratzer, Terrors of the Table, Chapter 10, Fads
- more on biblical vegetarianism: 17th century theorists, Tolstoy, Shelley, 7th Day Adventists
- Graham, (Caleb Jackson's "Granula") Kellogg and the invention of modern cereals
- Johanna Brandt's grape cure, fasting, veg, raw food, museli, uric acid, Salisbury steaks (3 lbs a day with warm water!), yogurt, Fletcher, vitamins, laetrile
- Note: pace of fads seem to increase with discovery of vitamins. Note: celebrated scientists not immune.
Moss, Salt, Sugar, and Fat
- Focuses on story of the "cereal wars" -- 1st sig. late 20th effort to take on industrial food industry.
- Reprise of cereal invention (note dyspepsia was the problem to cure, but was itself a dietary condition)
- Growth of industry: 1970 to 1980s: 660 million to 4.4 billion.
- Dentist (Ira Shannon) blows the whistle, nutritionists agree: is it cereal or a confection? Is
- Politics of the Cereal Wars: Gov't regulation, social engineering, addiction, marketing to kids.
- Business strategies: direct marketing to kids, relabeling, changing appeal (sugar as brain food), p. 85: consumption capitalism (read)
Pollan, In Defense of Food
- Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants
- A lot of what is in the grocery store isn't really food (evaluate in discussion)
- Changes in Food Culture:
- displacement of traditional authorities with gov't, science, and industry advice. "Nutritional Industrial Complex"
- upper middle class food culture: gourmet recipes and variety
- when, where, and how of eating has changed.
- Pollan's claim: Food is also about community, spirituality, our relationship to nature.
- Story of the McGovern Commission: start of politics of nutritionism. "No bad foods" and "No Bad Diets" become politically necessary beliefs.
- Nutritionism: the reductive and uncritical use of nutritional science to support an ideological and unhealthy view of the nature of food and the way to make food choices.
- Nutritionism leads to a food politics in which food producers can manipulate our consumption choices by engineering food which is fundamentally unhealthy but which appears as a relatively healthy choice.
- Food fads are fueled in part by nutritionism: cholesterol, fortified unhealthy foods, lipid hypothesis.
Possible Paper Prompt
Evaluate the critique of the modern American food system implicit in the video and reading for today's class. Is there a problem with our food system? If so, what are the main sources of the problem and what should be done about it. If not, where do you find a basis for skepticism or criticism of the critics?