2. The four ages of food
L. Malassis ( , pp. 35-71) describes the three ages of food as follows:
the pre-agricultural or gathering age, characterized by the harvesting of "wild" foods from natural ecosystems, dating back to the beginning of hominization, around three million years ago;
the agricultural age, marked by the "domestication" of animal and plant species for food purposes, within the framework of "agro-systems" and initiated some five to ten thousand years ago, depending on the region;
the agro-industrial age, with the emergence one...
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