Week 7 Flashcards
What come from the rise of industrial capitalism ?
- Domination of capitalism in the world economy
- Industrialization and urbanization
- Use of new technologies in production and transportation to lower cost of food
- Reproduction of labour and to speed up the accumulation process
- Emergence of nation states
- Colonialism and destruction of traditional economies
- Emergence of the settler family farm in North america
What are some of the impacts of industrialization in the food sector in north america ?
- Expansion of food processing industry
- Slaughterhouses, canning, refrigeration, pasteurization, margarin
- Switch from bulk food to pre- packaged foods
- Rise of national brand names
- Role of advertising in food marketing
- Emergence of food safety laws
- Lowering cost of food for the urban work force
For the video a story of stuff what key points did they touch upon?
- We are running out of resources
- ⅓ of the natural resources have been used
- All this then becomes waste
- Breast milk is becoming the worse every year
- The role of advertising emerged and we see the growing power of coperations
What does an average canadian spend on food?
10 %
McMichael and Friedmann ise the term food regimes to ..
o highlight the unique characteristics of development of the food system since the late 19th Century
Food regimes can be distinguished from each other by:
- Principle tendencies that shape the relations of production
- Main economic and political characteristics that dominated the world economy
- Governance structures
- Local/regional economic and political condition
When/what was the first first regime?
(pre-1914)
- Organization of the world economy under UK hegemony
- increase in international trade according to comparative economic advantage
- the settler family farm represented new form of specialized commercial agriculture in North America
- agro-industrial complexes in finance, energy, seeds, agricultural implements, agro-chemicals and food processing and retail began increasing their control of the food sector within nation new state
When/what was the second food regime?
(1947-1970)
- Organization of the world economy under US hegemony
- The restructuring of agricultural sectors by agro-food capitals to supply mass market
- The development of durable food and intensive meat commodity complex
what was the crisis of fordism in the mid-1970s
- decline in productivity gains
- increase in energy prices
- the burden of social programs
- competition from Europe and Asian countries
- geo-politics of the Cold-war
What/when was the third food regime?
(1980s-present)
- EU emerging as a new power bloc challenging the hegemony of the US
- Agricultural export competition threatening a trade war between US and EU
- Disruption of traditional trade patterns with developing countries
- Increasing commercial power of agro-food corps. Leading to tension between national and transnational capital
what happened post-fordism
A capitalist accumulation strategy emerged in the post-1970s. It is characterized by economic restructuring through flexible forms of work that differ from the Fordist model.
- Emphasis on increasing rationalization and efficiency
- Deskilling, cheap labour, intensification of the work process
- Concentration and centralization
- New management strategies
- Global sourcing
What is neoliberalism?
- Defending free trade
- Commitment to privatization and deregulation
- Commitment to reduce spending in social programs
- Increasing role of finance capital in the economy
- Using fiscal policy to discipline public
- Restructuring the role of the stat
Video on food notes
Tomatos have ethylene gas
No bones in the meat isles
Farmer are becoming factories
Mcdonalds demands the most products (meat, eggs, chicken)
3 companies control all the meat
Redesign the chicken to meets consumer demands, aka more white meat
Most chicken producers don’t want to show what is going on inside the chicken house
Chickens can’t even walk because their bodies can’t handle all of the
Antibiotics are put into the chickens feed but they’ve built up a resistant
280,000-300,000 for a chicken coup but they have them under contract for up grades therefore farmers become constantly in debt and no longer care for the products they are producing
They typically borrow 500,000 and earn only 18,000 and year
Most of the antibiotics that are produced in the world are given to livestock
High corn diets result in e coli
The fda conducted 50,000 tests in 1972 but only 9000 in 2007
