1. The Politics of Food Agenda for Thursday February 12
Discussion: olive oil and Greencore
Labor and the Locavore
-Ethical Values and Hudson Valley Farms
-The Local Trap
-The Santa Barbara Syndrome
-Farmworkers in New York
Next Thursday: Cod and Tuna; and Stripers

4. A story of improvement or decline?

5. A story of improvement or decline?

6. The Corn Subsidy and Junk Food

7. The Corn Subsidy and Junk Food
The wholesale cost of the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in a single can of Coca-Cola is less than 3 cents.

8. The Corn Subsidy and Junk Food
The wholesale cost of the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in a single can of Coca-Cola is less than 3 cents.
Twinkies are made from bleached wheat, sugar, and HFCS…

12. Ethical Values and Hudson Valley Farms

13. Ethical Values and Hudson Valley Farms
What values do these farms promote?

14. Ethical Values and Hudson Valley Farms
What values do these farms promote?
Why aren’t “fair labor” values more prominent?

15. Local Food

16. Local Food

18. Journal of Planning Education and Research
(2006)

19. Problems with “food miles”
Method of production.
Local food can use more energy than transported food.
Local food can use more water than transported food.
Mode of Transposition
Maine potatoes on trucks v. Idaho potato on train

22. The Santa Barbara Syndrome
The county grows commercial quantities of more than 50 vegetables and 25 varieties of fruit
Ranks among the top 1 percent of American counties for agricultural production, with annual sales of $1.2 billion
95 percent of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the county are shipped in from elsewhere

23. Santa Barbara crop report

24. Santa Barbara Strawberries

25. Strawberry facts
Strawberries are the fifth highest-consumed fresh fruit in the US, after bananas, apples, oranges and grapes.
California produces 87% of the nation’s fresh and frozen strawberries
All strawberries are picked, sorted, and packed in the field by hand. Trays are rushed to shipping facilities where they are cooled to 32 degrees. Within 24 hours of harvest, fresh market strawberries are shipped for delivery

26. US per capita consumption of strawberries (1970-2004)
1970 = = 7

27. Monthly shipments and grower prices for strawberries

28. Harvested area and yield per acre, by state

29. Harvested area and yield per acre, by state

30. Harvested area and yield per acre, by state

31. Back of the envelope calculations
Santa Barbara population x 7/lbs = 2,870,000 (1,435 tons)
Santa Barbara annual strawberry production = 412,500,000 lbs (206,250 tons)
2,870,000/412,500,000 = .7%
They produce enough strawberries to feed 58.9 million people a year!

33. Santa Barbara broccoli
# 2 cash crop in county
$139 million/yr in sales
28,000 acres, year-round

35. 88% of all broccoli is from California

36. Approx 20% of California grown broccoli stays in California

37. 85% of NYC broccoli is from California
83% of Chicago broccoli is from California

38. Local food consumption
What is the socially optimal percentage of consumption of locally-grown food for a county like Santa Barbara?
What is the socially-optimal percentage of exports of locally-grown food for a country like Santa Barbara?

39. Farmworkers in New York

40. Next Thursday 2/19
Bruce Berman, Boston Harbormaster, on striped bass. Please read 10-page case study posted to Canvas.
Greenberg, Four Fish: cod (ch. 3), tuna (ch.4)
Tuesday 2/24: salmon (ch.1) and sea bass (ch.2)

41. My office hours 3-4 only, today (Normally 3-5)
Added hours tomorrow 12-4

42. Food Narratives
Turn in at the Political Science Department (Prospect House)
Go down the front hallway
Take stairs at the end to the right
Bin marked “Food Narrative” in the basement
Before 4PM tomorrow (Friday)

43. Next Thursday 2/19
Bruce Berman, Boston Harbormaster, on striped bass. Please read 10-page case study posted to Canvas.
Greenberg, Four Fish: cod (ch. 3), tuna (ch.4)
Tuesday 2/24: salmon (ch.1) and sea bass (ch.2)

45. Incredible Meat-related Facts
Percent of global warming gas emissions from all transport worldwide: 13.4
Percent of global warming gas emissions from livestock: 18
Calories of fossil fuels to produce one calorie of grain:
Calories of fossil fuels to produce one calorie of free-range beef: 3
Calories of fossil fuels to produce one calorie of conventional beef: 33

47. THREE DIFFERENT STORIES: rise and fall; steady (pork: xx) ; incredible rise
Turkey: xx

50. AFTER the sale of beef had peaked

55. Subsidies

56. One more look at the corn subsidy

57. Effects of the Corn Subsidy

58. Effects of the Corn Subsidy

60. Per capita consumption of beef 2005-2008

61. Federal grazing subsidies

63. Federal grazing subsidies