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J. Anim Sci. 1972. 34:857-863.
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The Importance of Food in the Affairs of Man1

G. C. Anderson and J. M. Teitelbaum2

West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. 26506

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to review the basis for an interdisciplinary course known as Man and Food, a hybrid of the agricultural and social sciences. The nucleus of the course may be expressed as: The tendency of life systems as a function of time and size is toward closure!

The postulate of closure applies to the modern university and particularly to scientific and technological disciplines such as engineering, medicine, forestry and agriculture. However, it is really no less applicable to literature, history, mathematics and music. The result is, as C. P. Snow (1969) puts it, a "growing abyss" of misunderstanding between the arts and the sciences. To this might well be added the erosion of public attitudes toward higher education. Of equal, if not greater concern is the reflection of the phenomenon of closure in many students whose educational careers have made it increasingly difficult for them to explore beyond the prescribed limits of their "major." Their images of intellectual identity draw less and less support for their formation from outside the field of interest.

Footnotes

1 Invitational paper presented as a contribution to the Teaching Program of the American Society of Animal Science at its 62nd Annual Meeting at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, August 1–7, 1970.

2 Division of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and Department of Sociology (currently Fulbright-Hays and Agricultural Trade Act PL480 Faculty Research Abroad Fellow in Tunisia and Morocco, North Africa).






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