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===Introduction=== | ===Introduction=== | ||
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:Using the prism of the notions of <i>choice</i> and constraint, this article attempts to describe the upheavals which shook the human food system during the previous century.</br> | :Using the prism of the notions of <i>choice</i> and <i>constraint</i>, this article attempts to describe the upheavals which shook the human food system during the previous century.</br> | ||
:Since the birth of agriculture, the technology of choice has allowed farmers and breeders, to select and interbreed wild species to design (literally “designate”) species with the chosen and desired characteristics: domestic species.</br> | :Since the birth of agriculture, the technology of choice has allowed farmers and breeders, to select and interbreed wild species to design (literally “designate”) species with the chosen and desired characteristics: domestic species.</br> | ||
:At the end of the 19th century, the imperatives of the industrial revolution required a hyper-specialization of species oriented towards saving time and space, something which articial selection cannot address. The food-processing industry then embarked on the technology of constraint, objectifying the living even more: mechanically, chemically and genetically modified species.<br> | :At the end of the 19th century, the imperatives of the industrial revolution required a hyper-specialization of species oriented towards saving time and space, something which articial selection cannot address. The food-processing industry then embarked on the technology of constraint, objectifying the living even more: mechanically, chemically and genetically modified species.<br> | ||