Winter Term Course - January 2009

Courses for Upper-Class Honors Students

GST 430 - Food and the Environment 
Professor Andrew Angyal

This seminar will study the environmental, social and global dimensions of modern food production, focusing on major issues of American food culture, including industrial vs. sustainable food production, food safety, obesity and other health issues, fast foods, organic foods, meat vs. vegetarian diet and the Slow Food Movement. Does America have a distinctive national cuisine? How has the American diet changed?  What would a seasonal and regional cuisine look like? How has food production been globalized? What are the environmental implications of industrial food production? What is the future of food?