The entire world is moving towards a diet of too much red meat, too much sugar and vegetable oils, and too much highly processed food. The industrial food system, cheap sweeteners, and vegetable oil, and the relentless corporate marketing of low-nutrient/high-calorie snack food combine to damage people’s health across the planet. On the one hand, global eating patterns have never been more worrying.
Higher education, however, might be better thought of as Bee Wilson thinks about food.įor as Wilson explains in The Way We Eat Now, we are living in two simultaneous food realities. etc.) or rapturous (innovation, experimentation, digital, etc.). The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World by Bee Wilsonįar too often, the stories we tell each other about higher ed are either dismal (demographic drop-offs, cost disease, adjunctification, public disinvestment, etc.
