Zusammenfassung der Ressource
FOOD SYSTEMS
- 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
- Cooperative Extension
- primary educational outreach organization for farmers
- Still focused on the "individual" more than the "community"
- HISTORY
- Agricultural Industrialization
- left unabated since 1920s, esp. after WWII (1939-1945)
- with left-over chemicals to use for fertilizers
- 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