Food and Culture Who Really feeds the world – Women – the way forward Erik Chevrier November 16th, 2017

Exam Date Reminder!!! For students who do not have an e-mail about the exam (SOCI 252 A) Exam Room – MB2.435 Exam Date – December 7th Exam Time – 14:00 – 17:00 ANTH 252 students have received an exam date online

NO CLASS – November 21st You DO NOT have class on November 21st. This is a great time for you to meet with your groups and complete part of your assignment.

Fill Out Form to Reserve the Date You Bring Your Food Item Please write your name beside one of the dates for you to prepare your food item for the class. On the date you choose, you will: Bring in your pre-prepared food item for the class to taste (we have about 65 students) Find a way to serve ‘tasters’ to the class Make sure you do not create an abundance of waste Bring in your recipe so people can know what is in your food and how you prepared it Make a display of some sort to entice people to come try your food item Come on time to class You can bring in a different food item than the one you wrote about in the previous assignments BUT YOU MUST COOK/PREPARE IT YOURSELF

Competition? – Recap Capitalism does not encourage competition: (Shiva) There are large food corporations who monopolize the economy Prices are fixed by large food corporations who receive government subsidies and who do not account for externalities – i.e. climate, ecology and people’s local needs (Source, Stanford, 2008) Issue Theory of Competition Real-World Competition Firm size Tiny and many Large firms dominate Firm size on cost Costs increase for bigger firms Decrease for bigger firms Economies of scale Limit on firm size Diminishing returns Threat of new firms Relationships (firms) Completion is anonymous Strategic competition Influence on market Cannot influence prices Strive to influence prices Product differentiation Products are homogeneous R&D – Products are differentiated Competition and profits Do not earn ‘pure profits’ Strive to earn ‘pure profits’

World Systems – The State (Immanuel Wallerstein) States Sovereignty Borders Reciprocal Recognition from other States Legitimacy Part of an Interstate System States create quasi-monopolies States assert authority in at least seven principal arenas of direct interest to them 1 – Sets rules on how capital & labour flows in and out of its border (people, capital and goods) 2 – Sets rules on property 3 – Sets rules about employment and compensation 4 – Decides which costs are internalized 5 – Decides which economic process may be monopolized and to what degree 6 - They tax 7 – They protect its own core production process internationally

Corporation Definition of Corporation in Quebec A business corporation (also called "corporation" or "legal person") is a separate legal entity and, accordingly, has its own specific rights and obligations. The purpose of a business corporation is to operate an enterprise in order to generate profits that will be distributed, if applicable, among its shareholders. A business corporation: has an existence separate from that of its shareholders; owns property in its own name; acquires rights and assumes obligations and liabilities; signs contracts through its directors; may sue or be sued in the same way as a natural person The Corporation – What is a Corporation? The Corporation – Full Movie - 2h 11min 33sec

Who Really Feeds the World – Women (Shiva) Leipzig Appeal for Food Security in Women’s Hands Localization and regional instead of globalization Nonviolence instead of aggressive domination Equity and reciprocity instead of competition Respect for the integrity of nature and her species Understanding humans as part of nature instead of as masters over nature Protection of biodiversity in production and consumption

Transition to Agroecology and Food Democracy (Shiva) Transition from: Fiction to reality Mechanistic, reductionist science to an agroecological science based on relationships and interconnectedness Seed as the “intellectual property” of corporations to seed as living, diverse, and evolving: towards seed as the commons that is the source of food and the source of life Chemical intensification to biodiversity intensification and ecological intensification, and from monoculture to diversity Pseudo-productivity to real productivity Fake food to real food, from food that destroys our health to food that nourishes our bodies and minds The obsession with “big” to a nurturing of “small”, from the global to the local False, manipulated, and fictitious prices based on the Law of Exploitation to real and just prices based on the Law of Return False idea of competition to the reality of cooperation

Nevdanya Nevdanya – Nine seeds & new gift Seed to table links: Living seeds Living soils Living food economies Seeds of knowledge

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