Week 8: Food. Social Sciences Coursework Assignment.

Week 8: Food
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Week 8: Food
Cultural activists are individuals or movements that mash up in artistic mode to express the need for social justice and political change. Their actions are directed towards creating awareness and designing appropriate social change. The purpose of activism is to promote, impede, direct, intervene in social, political, and environmental reforms. Cultural organizing is an excellent way of creating change and gives value back to the cultures that may have been silenced is made invisible for long (Riley & Paugh, 2018). This task analyzes the activist report on how American food has ‘crowded out’ local foods and its impact on the local economy.
American food manufacturing firms have portrayed rapid economic growth and supremacy in the modern global economy over the past decade. The entities are highly dynamic and diverse in their quest to compete and fit in the sectorial economic scale. Therefore, their production entities have become more widespread and influential and widened their network and scope of operations within the global fiscal sphere (Riley & Paugh, 2018). The local production entities have been greatly compromised in terms of scale of production and in marketing their produce. A significant reason for the compromise of local entities is the efficient production mechanism and surplus amounts by their American counterparts. For instance, American culture has disrupted Italian Starbucks coffee traditions. This disruption led to the closure of Starbucks branch 207, barely seven years after its conception. The cultural shift attracted negative reactions from the natives, such as forbidding of Starbucks coffeehouse in Beijing.
The spread of American companies globally has a wide range of consequences o...