Food Cluster Cumulative Quiz Q1

Wong

Disproportionate focus on meat eating in human evolution

• Species centric bias (interested in human’s unique ability to hunt larger mammals

• Hunting more exciting than gathering

• Animal bones and stone butchering tools preserved more than plant remains & wooden tools

Key findings that shifted this view

• Human remains (teeth)

• Animal & plant remains

• Wooden tools

Raworth

The Doughnut

• Measures ecological overshoot and social shortfalls

• Believes we should seek to sustain Holocene-like conditions (stable climate, clean air, etc.)

• Wants to globalize economy to make it more distributive, thus more equitable (regenerative economics)

Vogel & Hickel

Green Growth

• Absolute decoupling required to meet Paris Agreement benchmarks

• Suggests post-growth demand-reduction & sufficiency (decrease growth rate and impact rate)

Meisterling et al.

Studied the potential environmental benefits of different ways of implementing HBIs using the environmental life cycle assessment

• Occurred at UCSB

• Classified each beverage by SSB, beverage type, and container types

Cleveland

Four components of campus food environments

• Physical food environments

• Campus food environments

• Sociocultural food environments

• Economic food environments

Disconnect between public good mission and business practices

Branca et al.

Nutrition transition: more ultra processed and animal source food that increases NCDs

DALYs = the sum of years of life lost in a population due to premature mortality (YLLs) and years lived with a disability (YLDs) due to a disease

Demand side and supply side policies needed

Gardner et al.

People on plant-based diets don’t have to worry about getting enough protein (complimentary proteins)

Sanghera

Daily Bruin about obstacles to accessing fresh produce on campus

Jay et al.

Experiment on UCLA cluster groups that found food cluster had lower carbon footprint

Bryan et al.

Exposed group to marketing schemes of food business

• effect on food choices last 3 months