Please join us on Thursday, September 18th from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm for a Waterloo Food Issues Group (WatFIG) public lecture. We will be meeting in Environment Building 1, room 221 (EV1-221).
Professor Tony Winson from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph will talk to us about his latest research: The Industrial Diet as the New Global Diet: Prime Movers and Prospects for Resistance.
The industrial diet was primarily developed and subsequently reproduced and expanded in the United States but has been rapidly globalized in just the last couple of decades beyond the developed world. As a mass diet that is linked with an array of serious negative health consequences it is essential that we know more about its origins, what more precisely it is, the forces behind it and the strategies used to promulgate it, and the impact it is having on the health of those populations effected. This talk will touch on these issues and numerous more, and will conclude with some remarks on the prospects for successful resistance and the establishment of a healthy, sustainable and humane dietary regime in future.
Feel free to bring your lunch. I hope you can join us!