Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics

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. 189 I N D E X abortion, xii, 121, 169n18 absorption, 9, 34, 58 accumulation, 61, 93, 141; hoarding, 65, 73; primitive, 7, 8; property, 37, 57, 146 Adams, Carol, 120–21, 122 Adorno, Theodor, 14 aesthetics, xxxii, 24, 29, 63, 136, 172n92; discourses of, xi, xii, 4, 43, 47; judgments based on, 44, 147 agency, 7, 49, 51, 148–49; declining, 20, 39; digestive subject and, 21, 63, 91; humanist concept of, 129, 130, 131, 132; in obesity debates, xxvi–xxvii; political, xxviii, 40–41, 53, 152 agribusiness, 99, 112–13. See also Big Food agriculture, 35, 168n13; fuel use, 99–100, 108; globalization of, xii, xiii; production increases, x, xxiii, 73, 76, 93; subsidies for, 76, 81, 111, 113; urbanization’s effects on, xx–xxi. See also farmers and farming; farmers’ markets; local foods movement; organic foods movement alienation, 16, 47; and globalization, 103, 110; Hegel on, 58; local foods movement and, 100–103, 107–8; Marx on, 60, 68 America. See United States (U.S.) American Obesity Association, 77 amphetamines, 11, 161n42 animals, 51, 53, 56, 125, 182n47; domesticated, 124–25; eating, 115, 139; humans’ relationship with, 27, 122, 123–27, 139, 140, 183n54; killing of, xxxi, 123–24, 128, 133, 146–47, 151, 153–54, 181n40; not serving whole, 28, 164n13; rights of, xi–xii, 120, 123, 129, 183n39, 184n65; suffering of, xvi, 121, 132; treatment of, xiv, xviii, 101, 128, 139, 181n40, 182n36. See also cows; horses; meat eating and meat industry anorexia nervosa, xvi, 12, 64, 85 anxieties, 12, 19, 30, 130, 145; over bodily functions, 37, 43, 136; over food, xiii, xxii, xxx–xxxi, 190 . I N D E X anxieties (continued): 44, 67–68, 71–72, 150; over globalization, xiv, xxix, 48, 78, 103, 135; over killing animals, 123–24, 124–25, 127; over political concerns, 71–72, 149–50, 151, 154; over postdomestic concerns, 126, 164n13; over self-related concerns, xxxii– xxxiii, 150, 153. See also fear appetite, 7, 76, 151; controlling, 9, 15, 120; suppressing, 3, 11, 14, 16, 160n34, 160n42. See also dieting; eating appropriation, 36, 41, 57, 59, 65, 94 Archer Daniels Midland Company, 107 Arendt, Hannah, 13–14 Arens, William, The Man-Eating Myth, 118, 181n17 Aristotle, 165n29 asceticism, xvi, 65, 66 assimilation, 48, 55, 56, 57–58 astronomy, 3, 4 Atkins, Robert (Atkins Diet), xxxii, 2, 14–15, 16–17, 20, 88, 89 Atwater, Wilbur, 8, 19 authenticity, xxxiii, 42, 65, 101, 105, 149; ideals of, 135, 152–53; ideology of, 36, 66, 119; individual, 59, 64, 96; liberal, 44, 47, 52, 147; politics of, x, 112, 151 authoritarianism, 50, 53, 67 authority, xvii, 30, 65, 103, 146, 163n2 autonomy, xxxii, 37, 101, 112, 153; aspirations toward, 32, 140; discourses of, 25, 106; eating’s relationship to, xxviii, 2; globalization’s effects on, xvii, 71–72, 86, 87–88, 150; individual, 18, 25–26, 29, 33, 48, 68, 78, 82, 106, 146–47; ontopolitical, 152–53; political, 65, 130, 131, 132; subject’s aspirations toward, 57, 59 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 27–28, 30, 36 Banting, William, 17 barbarism, 116, 117, 119, 121, 133 Barthes, Roland, 43 beef, 115, 116, 180n5, 181n22 beer, light, 7, 11 Belasco, Warren, 96 Bello, Walden, The Food Wars, xiii Bennett, Jane, 127–28, 130–32, 184n75; on digestive turn in political theory, 148, 149, 152; on food, 153, 184n69 Bentham, Jeremy, 121 Berger, John, 123 Bergson, Henri-Louis, 66 Berry, Wendell, xi, xxiii, 93, 109 bestiality, 121, 122. See also animals Big Food, 77, 89, 153, 154, 188n57. See also corporations: power of; Whole Foods stores Biggest Loser, The (television series), xiii Big Organic, xxiv–xxv, 97. See also organic foods movement bile, 35, 58, 63 bioethics, xviii, 125. See also ethics biology, 49, 51, 79, 126 biopolitics, 74, 109, 128, 135, 150; dietary practices and, 6, 19, 99–100; Foucault on, xii–xiv, xxxii, 5, 90, 176n67; of obesity, 72, 82, 87, 90; sovereignty’s I N D E X . 191 relationship to, 148, 149, 176n67 biosociality, 183n54 biotechnology, 98, 149, 153, 186n30; innovations in, xviii, 126, 141–42, 147 blood, drinking of, 116, 117, 180n5, 181n17 bodies, 51, 81, 143; body politic’s relationship to, 10, 11, 24–29, 94; controlling through diet, 78, 86, 110, 150; Descartes on, 165n29, 170n40; energy transactions in, 6, 8–9, 11, 41, 60, 108; equilibrium of, 56, 61–62; gendered, 7, 127; governed by messages, 18, 20; Hobbes on, 39–40...