Join us at the 21st Annual Student History Conference and for the Daniel Goffman Keynote Lecture! This years lecture is presented by Dr. Christopher Otter of The Ohio State University and titled, "Diet for a Large Planet: British Food and the Origins of the World Food Crisis." This talk provides a prehistory of the twenty-first century global food crisis. It explores Britain’s post-1750 shift to a diet rich in meat, wheat, and sugar. The origins of this transformation lay in Britain’s industrialization, urbanization, and imperial expansion, which catalyzed a transition from predominantly locally produced, and largely plant-based, nutrition. The diet provided increased energy flow for an industrial labor force, and it produced taller and stronger workers. However, it also produced unintended health consequences and an expanded ecological footprint. As this diet became Americanized and globalized in the twentieth century, these health and ecological problems became planetary issues.