ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a site where scholars from many parts of the world might bring together a cluster of ideas around the intellectual project of biological economies. It examines the potential of biological economies as an academic project a place where linked ideas come to be placed together, reworked and reassembled into new ways of changing the world. Even the most sterile empirical agricultural science was nevertheless highly politically consequential through its expressed disavowal of any political or values influences. The book intents to enable a politics and ethics of food that might guide and intervene in a world perched across a set of food precipices. It engages one of the big structuring categories of political economy by demonstrating the inadequacy of the industrial/corporate versus cooperative/local binary to understand the economic and cultural dynamics of new cheese varieties in Switzerland.
