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The cafeteria is where most students encounter agriculture. Even at land grant universities, which were designed to offer civic instruction in farming, most students don’t learn about farming in classes anymore, and the major crop on campus is typically the lawn—harvested weekly and then discarded. Few students at any college grow their own food, relying instead on the work of farmers, fishers, fruit growers, and ranchers in other places.

Eating in the college cafeteria, students depend on a complex of agricultural institutions that have developed over time. When Joe and Jo College devour the contents of their plates, they eat food that is delivered to them systematically. The cafeteria is just one small part of a food system, which is an intellectual and institutional infrastructure for the production, processing, distribution, marketing, preparation, and consumption of food.