Spirituality, social identity and sustainability

Question 1

conventional food

Answer 1

• industrial food

- result of strong economic progress and active commercial relationship between countries and regions

Question 2

religious food taboos

Answer 2

• explains the spiritual relationships between food and humans
• Muslims don’t eat pork
• Hindus don’t eat beef because cows are sacred
• > materialistic interpretation: for the environment

Question 3

food we consume

Answer 3

link to our social classes -> reflects tastes, values and identities

Question 4

Middle Ages

Answer 4

• exotic foreign spices represented a sign of prestige and social status
• Eastern traditions were used in the ceremonies in the West

Question 5

Coffee

Answer 5

• served as a spiritual panacea for medical problems
• upper class drink: kept ppl awake -> discipline and success
• represents: harmony, efficiency, friendship
• fashionable: varieties of coffee

Question 6

Developing countries

Answer 6

standard way of life

• agrarian societies
• no developed technology

Question 7

Developed countries

Answer 7

sustainable movement in terms of consuming organic food from local procedures

Question 8

Sustainable discourses are comparable to food taboos

Answer 8

food we consume symbolizes the individuals striving for survival and social identificstion

Question 9

Sustainability and spirituality

Answer 9

• tied together; prestige that determines social status depends on our choices and eating behaviors
• fruits imported in Asia/ South America connects the West customers spiritually

Question 10

Modern society

Answer 10

• religious food taboos don’t guide us anymore
• individual choices enable us to interpret food for longer existence
• eating habits replace supernatural divinities

Question 11

new age movement

Answer 11

mind, body, spirit are all interconnected

Question 12

sustainable food is more expensive than conventional food

Answer 12

typically imported, not subsidized

• expresses a form of intellectual and spiritual distinction
• guarantees an interconnectedness with nature

Question 13

Noble savage

Answer 13

(Renaissance movement)

- those related to nature were more cherished than the politically polluted in EU consumers urban areas

Question 14

ghost of taste

Answer 14

when people associate an imagined truthfulness of the advertised food product within its origin 0 like the farmer’s photo on a meat package

Question 15

hyperreality

Answer 15

consumers imagine, the nonexistent synergies of the way and place of production with health and nature that gratify one’s spiritual fulfillment