June 3: A Politics of the Senses

Farquhar asks the question in the essay on ethics we read earlier: "When we pick up a fork, to whom are we obligated since we never, in a fundamental sense,  eat entirely alone?"

In the chapters of her book Appetites on food and memory in modern China, we get a deeper sense of how this played out in modern China. How should we understand this in a context where memories of hunger and deprivation still haunt the present (as we saw also in Italy).

How might we apply this quote to our own context in terms of the responsibility for understanding the labor relations involved in producing our food? 

Don't forget to use a quote from the readings for today.