ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Union Pacific Railroad, Marvin Harris, Rangeland
25 Nov 2016
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9. 1 fast food, fat profits: obesity in america. Sugar production parallels tea, coffee, cocoa, tobacco. Neither very good for us (re: quantities consumed) Shared links to growth of capitalist world economy. Fast-food industry: sugar, fat and sucrose become foundations of us diet. One of the most environmentally damaging/wasteful forms of food production. Mass produced food that can be prepared quickly and easily sold in restaurants as a quick meal or to be taken out, typically less nutritional. White castle 1916 (ka) - drive throughs 1940s (first fast food restuarant) Term recognised in dictionary in 1951 (m-w) Sugar: 8 million calories, 1 acre sugarcane. Beef: 8 million calories, 135 acres ranch/grain. Helps produce the marbling": from fat (cattle only get fat if you feed them grain) 80% us grain fed to livestocks - take an enormous amount of land to sustain. Of us grain exports to feed overseas livestock.
