his negation was as political as it was nutritional ... The loss ofconfidence in America’s political superiority was matched by a loss of faith inits food habits.
Dietary advice and health fears shaped food industries and perceptions. Chicken nuggets benefited from being perceived as “low-fat” alternatives to red meat.
This was a time of dietary excess, to which Graham was reacting.
Dietary reforms- probably around the Industrial Revolution cause it produced too much food for people to consume.
Reilly’s roleas home economist was less a blue-collar job than a highly professionalizedposition for educated women at a time when many women were deniedprofessional status.
Expansion of middle-class white women's roles into food-related professions Reflects how 1950s American culture confined women's professional opportunities to consumer-oriented domestic fields.
The suburbs—the new residential areas just outside of cities, neitherurban nor rural—represented much of the prosperity of this period
Rise of suburban culture with its emphasis on modern kitchens and processed foods, contrasted with racial and economic inequalities, including segregation and redlining Food and domestic ideals reinforced both social mobility for some and systemic exclusion for others.
oranges as a gift of nature scientifically proven to promote health andgrowth—the perfect antidote to all of the pathologies of modern living.
Shows how vitamin C discovery was used to boost orange sales and link them to health and modern living --> advertising methods
Jell-O was embedded in at least three major strands of Progressivism: therise of domestic science, attention to inequality, and pure food reform.
Food reforms- making the byproducts (Jello-O) to maximize profits Reforms for women and equality Jell-O is made inexpensive and available to all --> support equality
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the United States was still a veryyoung nation, reconfiguring itself in response to new ideas and new leaders.
Political changes- probably resistance after the Whiskey Rebellion
Graham’s work embodies the United States of the early nineteenth century.It was a time of widening if still limited democracy, of political upheaval, a timeof national expansion and technological innovation, of religious ferment andpublic health reform, and a time of transformed foodways.
Dietary changes, reformations and tech innovations.
Vorschau der New York Times auf die wichtigsten Klimathemen 2024. Erwartet werden viele Extremwetterereignisse duch die Kombination von weiterer Erhitzung durch Treibhausgase mit dem aktuellen El Niño. Zu den wichtigen Themen gehören die Präsidentschaftswahlen, weitere fossile Expansion in den USA und weltweit, darunter die LNG-Expansion, das Wachstum der Erneuerbaren, globale Finanzreformen, Klimaprozesse und Klima-Aktivismus. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/climate/the-big-climate-stories-in-2024.html
centralizing reforms of Pope Gregory VII calledfor a more professionalized clergy. Church officials should now betrained administrators, versed not only in the scriptures but also inthe principles of accounting and law. A papal decree of 1079 orderedthat cathedrals should establish schools for the training of priests,
Democracy and Education was written before the assemblyline had achieved its dominant position in the industrialworld and before mechanization had depopulated the farmsof America.
Interesting history and possible solutions.
Dewey on the humanization of work front running the dramatic changes of and in work in an industrial age?
Note here the potential coupling of democracy and education as dovetailing ideas rather than separate ideas which can be used simultaneously. We should take care here not to end up with potential baggage that could result in society and culture the way scholasticism combined education and religion in the middle ages onward.
Dewey was first of all a social reformer.
There are several other important considerations related to LEB. First, there is a risk of capture of legislation by the domestic industry. Once an inefficient industry comes to rely on LEB for survival, the Ukrainian parliament might find it difficult to rescind the ban in the future. Second, LEB and other similar measures underscore that the Ukrainian parliament finds it acceptable to intervene in functioning of the markets based on empirically dubious rationale. The parliament substitutes the market by deciding how resources should be allocated. In doing so, the parliament teaches the businesses and the industry that they should compete through lobbying in the parliament, financial and informational, rather than through innovation and efficiency improvement in the market place.