| SES # | TOPICS | HANDOUTS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | Issues and reasons (PDF) |
| I. Overview of Issues and Challenges | ||
| 2 | Challenges | Reasons and reasoning (PDF) |
| 3 | Food and culture | Food and social meaning (PDF) |
| 4 | Human welfare overview: health, hunger, and exploitation | No lecture handout available |
| 5 | Environmental impact and animal welfare overview | Capitalism and liberty: a few background concepts (PDF) |
| 6 | Moral frameworks overview | Three moral theories (PDF) |
| II. Food: More or Less | ||
| 7 | Eating the American way | Social values: liberty and equality (PDF) |
| 8 | The distant needy | Consequentialism and famine (PDF) |
| 9 | Ethics vs. politics of food | No lecture handout available |
| III. Food: Conscientiously Considered | ||
| 10 |
Conscientious omnivorism? Screening: American Meat | No lecture handout available |
| 11 | Environmentalism? | Environmentalism (PDF) |
| 12 | Is "green agriculture" a solution? | Ecology and ideology (PDF) |
| 13 | Is "locavorism" a solution? | Locavorism (PDF) |
| 14 | Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) | Genetically modified organisms (GMOs): good, bad, or ??? (PDF) |
| 15 |
Free trade Guest Lecturer: Daniel Fireside, Capitol Coordinator, Equal Exchange | No lecture handout available |
| IV. Food: The Meatless Way | ||
| 16 | The vegan option | No lecture handout available |
| 17 | Moral theory and animal warfare | No lecture handout available |
| 18 | Pain vs. death | Is it bad to kill animals? (PDF) |
| 19 | The environmental omnivore? | Animal rights v. environmentalism? (PDF) |
| V. Food, Ethnicity and Culture | ||
| 20 | Ethnicity and food | Food, ethnicity, identity (PDF) |
| 21 |
Food and gender Screening: FLOW: For Love of Water | No lecture handout available |
| 22 |
Diet and obesity Screening: Gary Taubes lecture | No lecture handout available |
| 23 | Waste | Food access and food waste (PDF) |
| 24 |
Food activism: urban agriculture thefoodproject.org | No lecture handout available |
| 25 |
Food activism: art works Guest lecturer: Andi Sutton, Coordinator, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, MIT | No lecture handout available |
| 26 | Student presentations of final projects | No lecture handout available |
| 27 | Final lecture wrap-up | No lecture handout available |
