Corn vs. Everyone
Before corn replaced a variety of crops and animals on farms and became a monoculture along with soy there was this
What is diversity of plants and animals?
Most cattle today are raised here in “densely packed, city-like concentrated animal feeding operations”
What is a CAFO?
sugar, flour, eggs, corn and soy
What are the main ingredients in a Twinkie?
An emotionally captivating visual depiction of a person, place or thing
What is a photograph?
Focusing on benefiting the environment
What is environmental motive?
What happened during the industrial revolution as machines replaced humans, particularly farmers in US countries between 1950 and 2000
“Growing corn is just riding tractors and spraying”
What is disappearing farmers?
The old-fashioned way of raising cattle and growing food
What is a small family farm?
Yellow sponge cake and creme filling
What is a Twinkie?
A combination of captions, graphics and other visuals that provides brief information about a topic
What is an Infographic?
Focused on money-making, consumerism, or marketing
What is commercial motive?
A large factory type operation where animals are fed
What is a feedlot?
Grass and Hay
What are Natural Cattle Foods?
The medium used to diagram a Twinkie and list all of it’s ingredients
What is an Infographic?
Seeing and listening to characters in action; and connecting with them emotionally through visually engaging material
What is a video?
How people interact with one another in society
What is social motive?
“People or no people in Churdan, Green County corn keeps coming , more of it every year”
What is Corn vs. Everyone?
The American taxpayers have already paid part of the cost by subsidizing corn
What is a subsidy?
the raw materials that show up most on the Twinkie ingredient list
What are Corn and Soy?
Illuminated topic and layers of detail
What is a text?
To inspire action; or a reason for doing something
What is a motive?
The only business left standing in Churdan
What is the grain elevator?
Waste from CAFOs: manure, run-off, nitrogenous compounds
What is very toxic pollution and/or bacteria?
The company that bakes 500 million Twinkies each year and uses 8 million pounds of sugar, 7 million pound of flour, and 1 million eggs...
Who is Hostess?
Detailed text that can be shared, printed e-mailed, and read online
What is digital text?
social, commercial, political and environmental
What is motive?