Food habits, social change and the nature/culture dilemma

Abstract

Food habits, social change and the nature/culture dilemma Homo sapiens is an omnivorous species. The omnivore’s freedom of choice (provided, of course, there is a choice) implies a capacity to adjust to many environmental shifts, hence the possibility of moving from one environmental setting to another. However, the omnivore’s diet has to meet one important constraint, that of varie-ty. The various nutrients that his metabolism requires must be ex-tracted from a wide range of foods (Rozin, 1976). The human omnivore uses his freedom of choice in a most peculiar way. One of his specific features is that he is amazingly particular- even finicky- about his food. Man feeds not only on proteins, fats, carbohydrates, but also on symbols, myths, fan-tasies. The selection of his foods is made not only according to physiological requirements, perceptual and cognitive mechanisms,

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