The Future of Food

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This course covers the importance of food to the development of civilization as well as its future. The first part of the course will be devoted to the history of food, eating and its relationship to culture, from the prehistoric hunter-gatherers to what we are experiencing today with some people “Eating to Live” and some people “Living to Eat”. The second part of the course will be devoted to understanding the modern food system within the developed world with particular emphasis on the ethical/food justice issues that are currently being debated: organic/conventional, buy local, genetic modification, sustainability, obesity, hunger, food insecurity, food deserts, fair trade, free trade, food safety & other topics.