{"id":614,"date":"2018-04-15T04:37:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=614"},"modified":"2018-04-15T04:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T04:38:04","slug":"food-capitalism-anti-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/15\/food-capitalism-anti-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutritionism & Anti-Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Michael Pollan in Defense of Food)<\/p>\n

Michael Pollan creates a vibrant critique of the world food system that spans criticisms of inequity in valuation of trading good by countries of the Global North compared to that of the Global south, to analysis of Nutritionism and the intricate and interlocking ways that companies profit off of science, journalism, and the food industry\u2019s concerted effort to move the American diet towards processed food. However, his solution is to shop at the periphery of the grocery store, which is difficult because it\u2019s very expensive to buy whole foods which reside there. This is extremely detrimental to people who struggle with financing groceries already, and this negative effect is only compounded by the lack of time that poorer people tend to have because of working obligations. This makes me think that Michael Pollan either is unaware of or does not care about the truly nefarious ways that capitalism incites class war, by making the unethical option the only affordable one for poor people.<\/p>\n

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(Socialism vs Communism https:\/\/thisonevsthatone.com\/socialism-vs-communism\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

So what is the alternative? Anti-capitalism. A mobilization of the masses which should work towards regulation of capitalism, which is, as far as we can see now, inevitable. Socialism requires praxis and engagement; emphatically not what Pollan prescribes. Only contestation of the battlegrounds capitalism takes (industrialized food) can change the way it constructs our environment and hurts us as consumers. What does it really mean to defend food? What does Michael Pollan mean when he says that nutritionism is a profit motivated system? Capitalism is a system of economics that works towards efficiency (processed food), and profit (we eat way more than we used to pre-nutritionism), which leads inevitably to bad effects on the environment and consumers (overconsumption of resources, cancer from processed food).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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