FOOD TABOOS

A food taboo is a prohibition against consuming certain foods

Concept of food

biology

geography

culture

Establish cultural identity

Food taboos based on failure of foods to fit usual systems of classification

Pets "humanized“:eating them an act of cannibalism

Temporary food avoidances: related to particular periods of the life cycle

Pregnancy

Birth

Lactation

Infancy

Initiation

Periods of illness or sickness

Different form of temporary food avoidances involves the rules of fasting

Food taboos under pressure because society changing

Nutrition and health education reduced temporary food avoidances

In periods of emergency, dietary rules including food avoidances can be temporarily ended

Food restrictions affect nutritional status of a community

food taboos