Final Exam Take-Home Portion
SOC 341: The Sociology of Food
Zoraa Lutas
1353639
With reference to class ‘Been There; Ate That’ assignments (among other materials), discuss the broader significance of micro-driven social change in the food system.
“Together they (the citizens) can understand the challenges that face their local communities and develop strategies for engagement. They are able to take responsibility for a number of tasks and follow them through while recognising their rights within a larger system. By working together on a common vision, participants directly witness the strengthening of their community. Their commitment and ownership establishes a greater sense of control and power over their lives”
(Levkoe 588)
There are …show more content…
reflection, she addresses some of the challenging questions she faced with her choice of alteration of her diet, which was the removal of processed sugar. She states, “If sugar can cause addiction, then why is there sugar in the majority of the foods that are fed to us on a regular basis? Why does shelf life have to be longer than my life? Who does this benefit? Who is it hurting?” (Stratichuk 1). Asking these questions as an individual will assert us as not only the consumer but a voter on the products we choose to have in todays capitalistic driven …show more content…
As Kelsey Stratichuk puts it, “I use the word ‘attempt’ as it is a proven challenge when one attempts to switch their diets away from what is typical and easily accessible in society” (Stratichuk 1). Nevertheless voting with our consumer dollar and being aware of the product, as it relates to where it came from, its ingredients and its production process, as well as its effects on the world, will be strong enough to generate the first ripple of challenging the food industry and it’s systems. Thus acknowledging that the market that was “once a place for interaction with those who produce our food, has been transformed into an anonymous super-market” (Levkoe 589). This ‘anonymous super-market’, as Christine Fountaine states in her ‘Been There; Ate That’, will be held responsible for its “mass production of food which has its roots in profit, exploitation (lack of regulation/ hiring immigrant workers) and animal cruelty (chickens kept in dark unventilated rooms/slaughtered inhumanly)” (Fountaine 4). All these individual actions as a collective will then create a food democracy which “refers to the idea of public decision-making and increased access and collective benefit from the food system as a whole” (Levkoe
SOC 341: The Sociology of Food
Zoraa Lutas
1353639
With reference to class ‘Been There; Ate That’ assignments (among other materials), discuss the broader significance of micro-driven social change in the food system.
“Together they (the citizens) can understand the challenges that face their local communities and develop strategies for engagement. They are able to take responsibility for a number of tasks and follow them through while recognising their rights within a larger system. By working together on a common vision, participants directly witness the strengthening of their community. Their commitment and ownership establishes a greater sense of control and power over their lives”
(Levkoe 588)
There are …show more content…
reflection, she addresses some of the challenging questions she faced with her choice of alteration of her diet, which was the removal of processed sugar. She states, “If sugar can cause addiction, then why is there sugar in the majority of the foods that are fed to us on a regular basis? Why does shelf life have to be longer than my life? Who does this benefit? Who is it hurting?” (Stratichuk 1). Asking these questions as an individual will assert us as not only the consumer but a voter on the products we choose to have in todays capitalistic driven …show more content…
As Kelsey Stratichuk puts it, “I use the word ‘attempt’ as it is a proven challenge when one attempts to switch their diets away from what is typical and easily accessible in society” (Stratichuk 1). Nevertheless voting with our consumer dollar and being aware of the product, as it relates to where it came from, its ingredients and its production process, as well as its effects on the world, will be strong enough to generate the first ripple of challenging the food industry and it’s systems. Thus acknowledging that the market that was “once a place for interaction with those who produce our food, has been transformed into an anonymous super-market” (Levkoe 589). This ‘anonymous super-market’, as Christine Fountaine states in her ‘Been There; Ate That’, will be held responsible for its “mass production of food which has its roots in profit, exploitation (lack of regulation/ hiring immigrant workers) and animal cruelty (chickens kept in dark unventilated rooms/slaughtered inhumanly)” (Fountaine 4). All these individual actions as a collective will then create a food democracy which “refers to the idea of public decision-making and increased access and collective benefit from the food system as a whole” (Levkoe