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GEO 162 - Section 5

GEO 162 - Section 5. Plant-based diets. Meat-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).

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GEO 162 - Section 5

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  1. GEO 162 - Section 5 Plant-based diets Meat-based diets

  2. All students

  3. Foods

  4. Steak was a strong discriminatory variable

  5. Sushi was the second strongest discriminatory variable

  6. The average food likes and dislikes

  7. 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

  8. Food 2.0 • Would you eat it?

  9. 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)

  10. Cons of GMOs • Increased dependence in developed and developing world upon technology and consumerism around transgenic crops • Have not reduced herbicideuse • Round Up ready sees encourage more spraying of Round Up on crops • There still remains the possibility of superpests and superweedsand other unexpected outcomes

  11. 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

  12. Tilapia (Nile perch) commodity chain…any problems?

  13. Smithtown Seafood, Lexington KY

  14. How did the neoliberalization of markets with globalization impact local food production for Jamaican farmers and food sellers?

  15. Is Industrial Food Evil? "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 landThey've got it all worked out and we give our consentThey'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 payMake 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 quietAnd 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 restWe 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

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