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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الصفحة ix
... scientific journals , USDA yearbooks , mass journalism and adver- tising , agriculture school syllabi , nutrition textbooks , Victorian fantasies of a meal - in - a - pill , world's fairs , Disney amusement parks , chain super- markets ...
... scientific journals , USDA yearbooks , mass journalism and adver- tising , agriculture school syllabi , nutrition textbooks , Victorian fantasies of a meal - in - a - pill , world's fairs , Disney amusement parks , chain super- markets ...
الصفحة xi
... scientific nutrition could be harnessed to radically egalitarian ends. Chapter 5 ex- amines food systems envisioned in the darker, dystopian stories of the later twentieth century. Unlike the Progressive utopians, who believed that ...
... scientific nutrition could be harnessed to radically egalitarian ends. Chapter 5 ex- amines food systems envisioned in the darker, dystopian stories of the later twentieth century. Unlike the Progressive utopians, who believed that ...
الصفحة xii
... scientific breakthroughs, often producing a seemingly more efficient result. The modernist future is one of unprecedented needs, drives, and break- throughs. If the classical future eyes the visible riches of untapped fron- tiers, the ...
... scientific breakthroughs, often producing a seemingly more efficient result. The modernist future is one of unprecedented needs, drives, and break- throughs. If the classical future eyes the visible riches of untapped fron- tiers, the ...
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... scientific research could increase agricultural yields indefinitely . With proper encouragement of the agri- cultural “ arts ' . . . a very small amount of ground will be able to pro- duce a great quantity of supplies of greater utility ...
... scientific research could increase agricultural yields indefinitely . With proper encouragement of the agri- cultural “ arts ' . . . a very small amount of ground will be able to pro- duce a great quantity of supplies of greater utility ...
الصفحة 7
... scientific research . Godwin , on the other hand , firmly agreed with Condorcet's humanistic confidence in an infinite creativity capacity— “ Man is a godlike being . We launch ourselves in conceit into illimitable space and take up our ...
... scientific research . Godwin , on the other hand , firmly agreed with Condorcet's humanistic confidence in an infinite creativity capacity— “ Man is a godlike being . We launch ourselves in conceit into illimitable space and take up our ...
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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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