CSP 8 - Food Politics
Food issues are among the most contested and significant issues today. Debates about food include how and where food is grown, how it’s processed and manufactured into food products, and where it’s sold and consumed, whether in fast food restaurants, a Wal-Mart Supercenter, a liquor store, or in the home. Food Politics is a course that will take us through the food system, what debates are occurring about fast food and slow food, pesticides and organic food, or genetically modified food and locally produced sustainable food. It will look at alternative strategies such as farm to school, CSAs (community supported agriculture), and farmers’ markets as part of an emerging sustainable food movement. And this community- based learning oriented core course will also draw on the exciting organizing, research and policy work of Oxy’s own Center for Food and Justice.
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