Oct
30
Local Food Consumption, NRHA
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Contact Alan Gill, M.D.,
Program Director
Tacoma Family Medicine
521 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Street
Tacoma, WA 98405
Phone (253) 403-2922
Website: http//www.tacomafamilymedicine.org
Email: Barbara.york@multicare.org (Fellowship Coordinator)
Oct
30
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.
Sep
2
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Aug
29
Jul
10
Oil crisis related to Food and Agriculture… click here to read
Jul
10
Welcome To Goa
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Welcome To Goa
A popular paradise for the mining mafia
Benwen Lopez
Exposes the hazardous effects of the Mining Mafia in Goa. Click to read….
May
31
Food Consumption Behavior
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There is a growing interest for food safety, food quality and food related health among consumers
and policy makers in most industrialised countries. Possible reasons underlying this increasing interest
may include consumers’ income growth, increasingly intensive production methods in food
production, various food scares, including the BSE-crisis in the mid-1990’s, etc. This increasing interest,
together with the ongoing process of transforming agricultural support from price support to
decoupled payments and cross-compliance measures, implies that actors in the food supply chain
will have to increase their awareness of the consumers’ demands with respect to foods. Despite the
growing importance of consumer preferences, the knowledge on consumer behaviour is limited in
several respects.
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Report from NJF seminar 366
KVL, Copenhagen, Denmark
16-17 November 2004
Organised by JF Section IX and Food and Resource Economics Institute, KVL
May
30
Community Supported Agriculture, Food Consumption Patterns, and Member Commitment
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Community Supported Agriculture, Food Consumption Patterns, and Member Commitment
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