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24.03 Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food Choices (MIT)

This course explores the values (aesthetic, moral, cultural, religious, prudential, political) expressed in the choices of food people eat. It analyzes the decisions individuals make about what to eat, how society should manage food production and consumption collectively, and how reflection on food choices might help resolve conflicts between different values.... Show More
Keywords:
junk food, Economics, gender, weight, activism, vegan, Global Poverty, locavorism, ocwc, food, oec, hunger, agriculture, ecology, ethics, human welfare, omnivore, speciesism, poverty, animal death, vegetarian, nutrition, obesity, Philosophy
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Material Type:
Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:
August 6, 2014
Date Modified in MERLOT:
July 26, 2021
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The Open Education Consortium
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College General Ed
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English
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

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