Eating Anxiety: A Consumer's Guide to Globalist Dining.

Americans have long been obsessed with food, and this seems more true today than ever before.  This project examines agricultural, culinary, nutritional, economic, ecological, biological, and ethical debates about food as symptoms of a heightened anxiety over the status of individual freedom in a global economy.  I argue that the challenge to national sovereignty endemic to the age of globalization has catalyzed an anxiety about individual sovereignty, and that contemporary debates about food—debates that orbit around such terms as obesity, genetically modified organisms, factory farming, vegetarianism, and Atkins—both contain and displace this anxiety.