Cider: The new politics of food - for iPod/iPhone The Open University
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As police crack down on social problems such as binge drinking, how can a small artisan cider maker take cider away from the streets and back onto the restaurant table? The humble apple - and cider, one of it's most pleasurable products lie at the heart of a new politics of food activism while the decline of the British apple orchard reveals a much wider significance to our understanding of food, politics and the way we live.
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The politics of food
The apple has become a contested political symbol of rural Britain versus the need to keep up with mass markets, and as the policing of pleasure increases, in an attempt to deal with social problems such as binge drinking, the new politics of food has a far reaching impact.
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Transcript -- The politics of food
The apple has become a contested political symbol of rural Britain versus the need to keep up with mass markets, and as the policing of pleasure increases, in an attempt to deal with social problems such as binge drinking, the new politics of food has a far reaching impact.
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perspective: The politics of food
How does the decline of the British apple orchard have wider significance to our understanding of food, politics and the way we live? And why it is so important that the food activists have sustainable goals.
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Transcript -- perspective: The politics of food
How does the decline of the British apple orchard have wider significance to our understanding of food, politics and the way we live? And why it is so important that the food activists have sustainable goals.