Geographies Of Food: How Global Consumer Choices Affect Our Health.
You’re probably asking yourself “what has food geography got to do with nutrition and healthful eating?” Well, rather a lot really! When you scrape the surface and dig deep to unearth the lengths to which corporate food industries go in order to sell their ultra-processed foods just about everywhere in the world. Food Geography is a field of Human Geography. It focuses on patterns of food production and consumption on the local to global scale. It examines the type of foods these multi-nationals provide consumers highlighting that they are devoid of nutrients and are a far cry from the sustainable diets once eaten by our not-so-ancient ancestors.