Em busca da ordem no caos: o que é bom para comer no capitalismo do século XXI?/Searching for the order of chaos: the capital’s logic on determining what is good to eat

Abstract

The article develops a Marxist analysis of one aspect of the current food crisis: the problem around determining what is good to eat. The line that counters posed the problem of hunger to the problem of obesity has vanished, concentrating both on the concept of malnutrition, while increasing information on the properties of food. The article employs the concepts of commodity fetishism and the logic of profit to demonstrate, first, that the so-called food cacophony is the product of commodity mediation. And second, that this chaos around what is good to eat is only the form of expression of the imposition of specifically capitalist food consumption pattern centered on meat and processed food.

Keywords

• Food crisis
• capitalism
• nutrition.