FOOD SYSTEMS

FOOD SYSTEMS

1. CIVIC agriculture

   • "Civic agriculture is a locally organized system of agriculture and food production characterized by networks of producers who are bound together by PLACE." -TA Lyson
     • TERROIR: natural + social terroir + my version of "individual terroir" at the top of self-realization?
   • "The imperative to earn a profit is filtered through a set of cooperative and mutually supporting social relations." -TA Lyson
     • Kind of like the Danish welfare state(?) where people pay high taxes in order to gain services from the government and are generally satisfied

2. Cooperative Extension

   • primary educational outreach organization for farmers
   • Still focused on the "individual" more than the "community"

3. HISTORY

   • Agricultural Industrialization
     • left unabated since 1920s, esp. after WWII (1939-1945)
       • with left-over chemicals to use for fertilizers

4. CONVENTIONAL AGRICULTURE

   • Based on neoclassical theory of economics
     • relates supply and demand to an individual's rationality and his ability to maximize utility or profit
   • MASSIVE CORPS
     • TYSON
     • PERDUE
     • HORMEL