Food Controversies
September 11, 2017 - Categorised in: -This master-level course draws on the concept of “food politics” – the political, social, cultural and economic conflicts surrounding food – to debate some of the common public controversies surrounding the production and consumption of food around the world. The course is organized around class debates. Each class will cover a specific topic or question related to food and agriculture, which one student will argue for and another will argue against. Topics include ‘hot issues’ in food politics, such as:
- The use of agricultural biotechnology
- Genetically modified organism
- Big food and big agriculture
- The political economy of food and hunger
- Food choices and the omnivore’s dilemma
- Nutrition, diets and public health
- Food movements and food advocacy
- Food and the environment