SUSTAIN 2S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Snack, Livestream, Organic Food
2 Jan 2018
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Cheapest food possible is given to people who cannot afford the food. Most of corn/soy goes towards meat production. Food is an inelastic commodity, so to make people eat more, they make snack food. Food shouldn"t be a commodity, but it is being bred to become a commodity. Picking food green allows for better transportation, but worse nutrition. ~25% of products contain corn: can be stored, broken up and put together really well. Monsanto"s license agreement is against saving seeds, so you need to buy new ones each year. Some seeds have hybrid genetic resistance to herbicides because then you can put whatever you want. However, it will fail in the next generation. Changing job market is resulting in less-stable jobs: however, that could mean you have more time to do more good stuff, we can avoid this by growing our own food. Migrant workers are exploited to pick all our fruit: lower than minimum wage, horrible hours.
