Edible Education: The Rise and Future of the Food Movement
One of the many currents that the opening of Chez Panisse in 1971 helped set in motion is the movement now rising to reform the American food system. The restaurant focused an early light on the social and environmental benefits of farming sustainably and helped spur the growth of organic and local agriculture. Today, the food movement is a big, lumpy tent under which many different groups are gathering: organic agriculture, school lunch reform, food safety, animal welfare, hunger and food security, farm bill reform, farm-to-school efforts, urban agriculture, food sovereignty, local food economies, etc. As a subject, food is remarkably multi-disciplinary, drawing on everything from economics and agronomy to sociology, anthropology, and the arts.
In this course, each week lecturers representing a wide variety of disciplines explored what their particular area of expertise has to offer the food movement to help it define and achieve its goals.
Reading: The Politics of Food
Reading: Perspectives on Race, Place, and Food
Reading: Nutrition, Health, and Diet Related Disease
Reading: Corporations and the Food Movement
Reading: School Lunch and Edible Schoolyards
Reading: Feeding the World
Agriculture and Social Justice: Eric Schlosser, Lucas Benitez, Greg Asbed (lecture coming soon)
Reading: Agriculture and Social Justice
Reading: What is an Edible Education?
Reading: Food and the Environment
