Local Food Consumption, NRHA

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Rural and urban residents alike are increasingly becoming attuned to the way food tastes, despite — or perhaps because of — the abundance of highly processed matter that typically adorns our plate and lines our stomachs meal after meal.

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Vegetarianism

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Sociology of consumption: trends in food consumption

Arouna P. Ouedraogo
INRA-CORELA, Paris

INTRODUCTION
• Presentation will focus on study on vegetarianism in France, which is part of a Food Acceptability research program undertaken at INRACORELA, Paris.

• The driving hypothesis was that the best means to study the social conditions of trust with respect to food roducts was to spot the circumstances where they are subjected to more or less distrust.

• Literature review on food acceptability, followed with series of in-depth interviews with panels of consumers across France, showed that several signals of food unease were crystallizing over beef meat.
These reports were further confirmed by statistic surveys.
PURPOSE
• Understanding the conditions in which evolves the hostility to meat, including the sociological properties of the groups who carry that hostility helps to know how it spreads and with which social categories it grows.
RESULTS
Vegetarianism, an effect of changing culture change in Labour Conditions, Change in Social Definitions of Edibility Transformations in the Economic Structure
• Decrease of Manual Labour i.e Less Need of Energetic Foods: meat, wine especially
• Average Increase in Level of Education nd Broader Diffusion of Dietetic Knowledge

Consequences regarding vegetarianism:
• More and more socially varied, with lower middle-classes as new comers
• Different determinations in adopting the diet, i.e Different uses of vegetarianism
• Broad acceptation of medicalization of health, i.e Room for alternative medicalization of self defined healthy practices Urbanization of Culture, Higher Sensitiveness to Sustainable Living and Quality of Life
Transformations in the Symbolic Economy of Life
• Rural Economy Flowing Back, Increasing Interests in Rural, Local Life and Products
• Praise for Nature and the Natural: Aesthetics in Landscape, Care for the Environment, the Animals, Exaltation of Freshness in Food Consequences regarding vegetarianism:
• Proto-ecologism as vehicle of dissatisfactions towards standard food supply
• Natural-food, health-food, local-food, rganic food movements in rise, all Ferments of vegetarian ideology, including consumption of meat, or meat products.