What Are Some Downsides of the 'Nutrition Transition' That Accompanies

question 11

Multiple Choice

What are some downsides of the 'nutrition transition' that accompanies industrialization?

• A) It can be involuntary, such as when globalization makes local foods more easily available than Western foods
• B) It can be involuntary, such as when capitalism supports pollution that makes it dangerous to live off the land
• C) It protects us against the diseases of modernity, particularly among the poor
• D) Cheaper cuts of meat are all made into pet food
• E) It stops people from achieving an 'epidemiological transition'

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World Trade Organization

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