Show:
Intro, Ch. 1
Ch. 10
Ch. 11
Ch. 11& review
Ch. 2-5
100
What is this book about (research goals)?
What is an ethnography of the meat and poultry industry, the workers, and the communities where the industries are located, and culture change
100
What are some of the environmental and quality of life issues associated with CAFOs? (must list 4 in 5 tries)
-smell -flies and other vermin -ground water pollution -health risks -increased and overweight traffic (from the trucks to transport)
100
What is Mad Cow Disease?
Discovered in 1986, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a form of a transmissible degenerative brain disorder (TSE). BSE is a potential link with Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD), a fatal brain disease. It was publicized as a “direct link” and “went viral”! Immediate reaction in UK was to destroy over 9 million cattle, and compensate British farmers over 8 million dollars for their losses.
100
What are the human costs of our food?
-immigrant workers, many undocumented and exploited; "merry-go-round of human trafficking" -Industrialized agriculture passes along the costs to other parts of the economy or to consumer, “externalizing costs.” - Factory farms use a lot of agrichemicals, gas/oil -Loss of farms, loss of diversified farming operations that were the backbone of life in most of US, supporting small town America -Rural poverty
100
What is the #1 goal in feeding cattle?
What is increase weight as quickly as possible but you also want quality of meat
200
Define “producers” and “processors”.
What is Producers = true family farmers who produce a wide range of food for themselves and their families and maybe a surplus sold locally; Processors = corporate farmers that only produce one or two commodities for agribusiness giants (transnational corporations)
200
Who are "tree huggers" and what do they say about CAFOs?
tree-huggers are environmentalists who are outsiders and probably can be said to oversimplify b/c they just want an end to all CAFOs; it’s more complicated.
200
Should we be concerned about Mad Cow Disease?
Since 1995, only 170 people have died; BSE is almost extinct in Britain; 11 cases reported in 2010. 2010, only 44 cases worldwide. What are the odds? Only 3 in the US. Only 3 cases of vCJD as of June 2011. 2/3 were born in UK; 1 in Saudi Arabia. SO our risk is virtually zero. Are you okay with that?
200
What are two paradigms of food production in the US?
#1: productionist paradigm, corporate agriculture, oligopolistic food industries #2: integrated-ecological paradigm, production of food locally, naturally, and sustainably
200
What opinion do farmers have about CAFOs and the controversy?
farmers resent environmentalists/tree-huggers and those who really don’t know what life is like in Western KY or really understand the economics of it.
300
Why and to where did processing move?
What is away from urban areas where there were no workers to rural areas closer to sources of production (cows, pigs, chickens); new plants were constructed as assembly lines intentionally; importing immigrant and refugee workers to small towns, in effect building packinghouse towns.
300
What point of view do residents have about CAFOs?
residents are neighbors and country people who sometimes are against but most are okay with it; they understand the “farming” part of it; may not have as many objections at the end of the day as tree-huggers
300
2. List reasons why we should be concerned about antiobiotics in our food supply (i.e., in cows, pigs, chickens).
We have more and more antibiotic resistant strains of human infections. We do have mandatory food recalls since 2011 except for meat. If they don’t the Food Safety and Inspection Service can seize products. BUT HOW LONG DOES ALL THIS PROCESS TAKE? In the meantime….
300
What is the #1 barrier to production on the slaughterhouse floor?
language
300
What are the by-products of hog production?
What is solid and liquid manure
400
What are CAFOs and the problems associated with them?
What is Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations; Smell, manure disposal
400
What happened in Western Kentucky between the Sierra Club, Tyson Foods and four of its growers?
-Sierra Club (SC) sued Tyson and 4 of the largest WKY growers. Tyson accused SC of “politicizing” agriculture. -Tyson agreed to monitor for ammonia emissions for a year and create a report to SC, as well as spend $50,00 to plant a tree screen, paid all legal fees, and compensated the 3 residents who brought the lawsuit. -Poultry farms do emit enough ammonia to be harmful according to a report from Iowa State University in 2007.
400
What does it mean to say that our food is globalized?
The giant transnational corporations that provide food for us have no borders or boundaries on bringing food to our tables.
400
What is a cultural broker?
Cultural brokers are those managers and hourlies who can bridge the differences between language & corporate and work cultures. They must get along for either/both to survive.
400
What changed the discussion about animal well-being and why?
What is the hidden video from Westland/Hallmark slaughterhouse and the recall, which was too little too late since kids had already consumed most of the meat in the school lunch program
500
What has been the global impact of the changes in the meat industry?
What is this corporate model has been exported, displacing subsistence farmers, requiring lots and lots of land, clearing the Amazon rainforests and Brazil, exporting means the local price skyrockets, climate change.
500
4. What are some other oppositions to the meat industry? (name 2 of 4)
-negative social and economic impacts are a long list of problems brought to local communities with these operations (see Ch. 8) -input costs have gone up with new focus on environmental regulation/control -food scares which demand tighter regulation of food production; and rising grain prices. -2008 saw closings and layoffs as the industry is hit hard with stagnant growth in domestic markets and OUR GROWING AWARENESS!!!!
500
What are some other problems with our food?
We eat more We eat out more, prepare our own food less. We “graze”, we eat more and more fast food (more and higher in fat, sodium, calories, etc.). We are urbanized, have more disposable income to spend on expensive fast food
500
What happened when Stull and Broadway delivered their report to RIB?
Nothing
500
What is a “humaniac”? Name the 3Rs.
What is people and organizations working for humane, ethical treatment of animals used in food; 3 R-s: reduce, refine, replace