ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Marvin Harris, Fossil Fuel, Rangeland
28 Nov 2016
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Fast food: mass produced food that can be prepared quickly and easily. Sold in restaurants as a quick meal or to be taken out. Fish & chips uk 1860"s, white castle 1916 (ka) - drive-throughs 1940"s. Focus of protest: low-wages, anti-global. /us, environmental issues etc. 8 million calories / 1 acre sugar cane. 8 million calories / 135 acres ranch/grain. 80% of us grain is fed to livestock. Of us grain exports to feed livestock oversea. 50% water in the us is for cattle. Water for 10 lbs of steak = annual household usage. Cattle produce 47 lbs of manure / day. Methan 23x more harmful than carbon dioxide. Global warming: gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth"s atmosphere. Increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. Un: agriculture responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases. 1 kg beef = 36. 4 kg co2. 1 car - 250 km = 36. 4 kg co2.
