Instructors:
Lucy Jarosz (jarosz@u.washington.edu)
Ann Anagnost (anagnost@u.washington.edu)
Course Description:
This course explores how food production and consumption creates meanings, identities, relationships, and values that extend far beyond meeting our nutritional needs. It is organized thematically to include considerations of the industrialization of food, food and health, local and alternative food systems, hunger, and food democracy movements. The learning objectives for this course are to encourage a deeper understanding of these themes, to enhance your ability to synthesize and analyze issues and debates among the topics, and to reveal how the questions and concepts introduced each session are applicable to your lives.
Readings:
Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma (Penguin Press, 2006) is the only assigned reading for this course. But we hope it will just be the beginning of your explorations. We have included many suggestions for further reading (and viewing) for those who would like to explore food issues further.
Course Schedule:
January 14: Making Industrial Food
January 28: What to Eat?
February 11: Food and the Environment
February 25: The Contemporary Food Crisis
March 11: Toward Food Democracy: Local and Alternative Food Systems
I guess I spoke too soon...
See the following
link on Daily Kos about the bills now before Congress that could pose a serious challenge to small-scale sustainable farming.
Interesting. Thank you for posting this. I'll need to read the original bill more carefully to see how it will be applied. My first impression from the Op-Ed though, is that these could be good rules to impose on industrialized food producers, but would be burdensome on small-scale independent farmers. So the key may be to exempt small-scale farmers from this.
ReplyDeleteThen again, seeing Monsanto's name attached to it makes me want to comb through this some more.