Difference between revisions of "Food Inc Notes"

Revision as of 21:14, 21 January 2018

1. Facts that you are surprised by, think important, or are suspicious of.;

2. Questions raised by the movie;

3. Claims or thesis that the movie's documentary evidence seems to support.

Agrarian images in supermarkets are ideological. Conceal reality of food production.

Concentration of markets in a few large corporations. Control of production for larger market. 70’s top 5 meat packers: 25% 2008: top 4 80%. Not as much diversity as supermarket labels imply.

industrial chicken design: lots of breast meat and quick growth.
10min Vince: "Smells like money to me!" economics of industrial chicken ag. health issues. transparency issues: Tyson refused to allow cameras in.
Carole Morison - dissenter - 15:28. Connect selection by price to chickens that can’t walk. Loses contract.
price of commercial vs. Organic chicken: [1]

industrial foods as rearrangements of corn -- from 20 bushels an acre to 200 (I wonder what yield is for a modern organic corn field?).
30% of landbase to corn. Gov’t policy Troy Raush. Foreign policy and commodity crops.
Food scientists: Larry Johnson. HFCS. Defining “industrial eating”. Making fish eat corn. Corn and effect on meat prices. Gov’t subsidy of meat.

Joel Salatin Show -- "honest food" includes externalities. speech on not maximizing growth to preserve food integrity (very interesting topic)

Hog Segment 55:44 32,000 / day recruiting from Mexico after dumping cheap corn there.

STUDENT NOTES
-Treatment of chickens is not so cut and dry, very unclear about most practices
-Fix it chemically rather than going back to the root
-Big Money influences all decisions in the industry
-Most amount for cheapest cost
-Regulation is subpar
-Corn is a huge commodity in the food industry, not just for Human consumption but for livestock as well

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 :*Corn Story - Pollan
 ::*industrial foods as rearrangements of corn -- from 20 bushels an acre to 200 (I wonder what yield is for a modern organic corn field?).
+::*30% of landbase to corn.  Gov’t policy Troy Raush.  Foreign policy and commodity crops.
+::*Food scientists:  Larry Johnson.   HFCS.   Defining “industrial eating”.   Making fish eat corn.  Corn and effect on meat prices.  Gov’t subsidy of meat.
 :*Jack in the Box Ecoli Story