While reading the different papers I realised that the study of agriculture and food systems is extremely interesting and crucial in the development of humanity that we can analyse throughout a degree of various disciplines. New modern academia has developed a greater respect for the intellectual study of food that according to Belasco was often alienated due to being seen as a female lead subject and for requiring the cross interaction of different disciplines which was very looked down upon in older academic institutions. If I could add a few points to Belasco I would argue that Maslov’s hierarchy of needs may also give us some explanation as to why food studies have been largely ignored till recently. I would argue that since food is one of the very lowest needs of human beings, academics and members of the cognitive elite tend to already be pass the point of worrying about their basic nutritional needs and thus prefer to focus on stuff that more closely aligns with their higher needs, such as politics, philosophy and applied sciences. Unfortunately the importance of food and agriculture in indigenous culture may be one of the major reasons why indigenous people have been largely ignored by academia. Just like Belasco stated, the study of food has been largely looked down upon and ridiculed and I would argue this is due to people thinking that food might be a primitive need like in Maslow’s hierarchy and thus cultures that emphasize an importance on gastronomy are just looked down upon as extremely uncivilized by western based academic institutions.