Meals to Come: A History of the Future of FoodUniversity of California Press, 18/10/2006 - 393 من الصفحات In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the future of the food supply in myriad ways, and here Belasco explores a fascinating array of material ranging over two hundred years—from futuristic novels and films to world's fairs, Disney amusement parks, supermarket and restaurant architecture, organic farmers' markets, debates over genetic engineering, and more. Placing food issues in this deep historical context, he provides an innovative framework for understanding the future of food today—when new prophets warn us against complacency at the same time that new technologies offer promising solutions. But will our grandchildren's grandchildren enjoy the cornucopian bounty most of us take for granted? This first history of the future to put food at the center of the story provides an intriguing perspective on this question for anyone—from general readers to policy analysts, historians, and students of the future—who has wondered about the future of life's most basic requirement. |
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... example, in the current controversy over genetic engineering, some scenarios resemble the feverish extrapolations offered in response to earlier proposals to streamline the conversion of solar en- ergy to food through synthetic ...
... example, in the current controversy over genetic engineering, some scenarios resemble the feverish extrapolations offered in response to earlier proposals to streamline the conversion of solar en- ergy to food through synthetic ...
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... example, the 1890s, 1920s, late 1940s, 1970s, and 1990s. In chapter 2, I identify the conditions and events that have precipitated food secu- rity scares, namely, food price inflation, spikes in birth rates, environ- mental stresses ...
... example, the 1890s, 1920s, late 1940s, 1970s, and 1990s. In chapter 2, I identify the conditions and events that have precipitated food secu- rity scares, namely, food price inflation, spikes in birth rates, environ- mental stresses ...
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... examples mainly from the world's fairs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The modernist future, representing a distinct break with the past, is a radically new vision based on the very latest technologies and ...
... examples mainly from the world's fairs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The modernist future, representing a distinct break with the past, is a radically new vision based on the very latest technologies and ...
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... example , I ask each of my food studies students to share the following highly incendiary passage by novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer with five people and to track their reaction : I watched someone at the next table working away at his ...
... example , I ask each of my food studies students to share the following highly incendiary passage by novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer with five people and to track their reaction : I watched someone at the next table working away at his ...
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Will the World Run Out of Food? | 20 |
3 The Deep Structure of the Debate | 61 |
PART II IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF FOOD | 93 |
4 The Utopian Caveat | 95 |
5 Dystopias | 119 |
PART III THINGS TO COME | 147 |
6 The Classical Future | 149 |
7 The Modernist Future | 166 |
8 The Recombinant Future | 219 |
Postscript | 263 |
Notes | 267 |
Selected Bibliography | 317 |
Acknowledgments | 333 |
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