Why is There Uneven Access to Food? Crash Course Geography #42
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Julie
To your point about food diversity: I'm a medieval historian, and one of the most interesting things when looking at the historical foods of Europe (early modern and earlier) vs. today is the sheer variety of foods they would eat (especially the upper classes, that we don't eat at all nowadays. Tons of different types of game meat, birds, fish and seafood, etc. that would be impossible to find in grocery stores, and hard to find even in luxury grocery stores. Today, we're used to seeing beef, chicken, and pork in the meat aisle, maybe with a few extra -luxury meats- for fancy meals, but at a medieval feast, you might have dozens of different types of animals being eaten. Medieval people ate a far more diverse diet than us modern folk, for sure!
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To your point about food diversity: I'm a medieval historian, and one of the most interesting things when looking at the historical foods of Europe (early modern and earlier) vs. today is the sheer variety of foods they would eat (especially the upper classes, that we don't eat at all nowadays. Tons of different types of game meat, birds, fish and seafood, etc. that would be impossible to find in grocery stores, and hard to find even in luxury grocery stores. Today, we're used to seeing beef, chicken, and pork in the meat aisle, maybe with a few extra -luxury meats- for fancy meals, but at a medieval feast, you might have dozens of different types of animals being eaten. Medieval people ate a far more diverse diet than us modern folk, for sure!
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Gaasuba
it's hard to grow enough food to lighten the load on the supply chain if no jobs pay enough for a stay-home to exist.
my moldy apartment with it's wrong kinds of sealant and paint is so damp it's near impossible to grow anything, even though i'm a stay-home thanks to disability.
over production is destroying the planet
Let the people and the planet rest!
No more evictions from primary residences!
No one should have a second home until everyone has one! Even the banks!
Fear of eviction keeps people from having the free time to do good works!
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it's hard to grow enough food to lighten the load on the supply chain if no jobs pay enough for a stay-home to exist.
my moldy apartment with it's wrong kinds of sealant and paint is so damp it's near impossible to grow anything, even though i'm a stay-home thanks to disability.
over production is destroying the planet
Let the people and the planet rest!
No more evictions from primary residences!
No one should have a second home until everyone has one! Even the banks!
Fear of eviction keeps people from having the free time to do good works!
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Itheuser
I don't know. America has the highest number of obese people that are below the poverty line. In Africa, there's plenty of food aid, but due to infrastructure issues and military conflicts, it can be hard to consistently get food to those populations safely, and in a timely manner. I think it has more to do with non industrialized nations wading the growing pains of becoming industrialized. Hey, China figured it out.
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I don't know. America has the highest number of obese people that are below the poverty line. In Africa, there's plenty of food aid, but due to infrastructure issues and military conflicts, it can be hard to consistently get food to those populations safely, and in a timely manner. I think it has more to do with non industrialized nations wading the growing pains of becoming industrialized. Hey, China figured it out.
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cactusofdoom
Sad that no time was spent talking about Food Waste especially in the United States. Food is not accessible to poor people, who are often ethnic minorities, by design and food is thrown away rather than given out for free to whoever needs it. This series, informative as it is, consistently washes over the ways in which modern systems of capital create poverty and human suffering.
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Sad that no time was spent talking about Food Waste especially in the United States. Food is not accessible to poor people, who are often ethnic minorities, by design and food is thrown away rather than given out for free to whoever needs it. This series, informative as it is, consistently washes over the ways in which modern systems of capital create poverty and human suffering.
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Gaasuba
It's ridiculous that foraging and farming aren't fundamental parts of our education.
A north american holly plant's leaves contain caffeine and can replace coffee.
Every part of the dandelion is edible.
Potatoes, peppers, corn so many staples are native here and easy to grow.
There's no need for this over reliance on corporations/international shipping
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It's ridiculous that foraging and farming aren't fundamental parts of our education.
A north american holly plant's leaves contain caffeine and can replace coffee.
Every part of the dandelion is edible.
Potatoes, peppers, corn so many staples are native here and easy to grow.
There's no need for this over reliance on corporations/international shipping
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Raygun9000
As an Indigenous person, I am shocked that you blame colonialism for lack of food security. It's all this damnable foreign aid and socialism that's destabilising local economies.
In the case of Africa though, slash and burn was the traditional method of farming before any middle easterners or Europeans ever went south of the Sahara.
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As an Indigenous person, I am shocked that you blame colonialism for lack of food security. It's all this damnable foreign aid and socialism that's destabilising local economies.
In the case of Africa though, slash and burn was the traditional method of farming before any middle easterners or Europeans ever went south of the Sahara.
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education
9: 30 Food deserts can also be financial. There's a grocery store across the street from me, but it's a -luxury/premium- grocery store, so almost everything in it is drastically overpriced. I have to drive halfway across town to get to the nearest normal/-cheap- grocery-store (assuming the car is working. -
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9: 30 Food deserts can also be financial. There's a grocery store across the street from me, but it's a -luxury/premium- grocery store, so almost everything in it is drastically overpriced. I have to drive halfway across town to get to the nearest normal/-cheap- grocery-store (assuming the car is working. -
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jtj
In what we now call the united states, in what we now call the americas. This is just pandering. You wouldn't say -in what we now call italy-.
PC is nice but this is just useless.
Good job on this series btw. I love it and would love to see more social sciences like athropology in crashcourse
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In what we now call the united states, in what we now call the americas. This is just pandering. You wouldn't say -in what we now call italy-.
PC is nice but this is just useless.
Good job on this series btw. I love it and would love to see more social sciences like athropology in crashcourse
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Ege
Appreciate the video. Next time I highly suggest starting with a simple superficial answer to the question in your title and delving deep into it step by step.
I kept wondering why you are talking about the things you're talking about when I was actually really curious about the question.
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Appreciate the video. Next time I highly suggest starting with a simple superficial answer to the question in your title and delving deep into it step by step.
I kept wondering why you are talking about the things you're talking about when I was actually really curious about the question.
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Sonja
Well done, and a touchy subject handled intelligently and fairly. This is a topic that gets REALLY personal for so many (myself included, and it's incredibly difficult at times to separate fact from feelings. Thank you for your hard work on this script in particular!
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Well done, and a touchy subject handled intelligently and fairly. This is a topic that gets REALLY personal for so many (myself included, and it's incredibly difficult at times to separate fact from feelings. Thank you for your hard work on this script in particular!
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