SOC 2080 Lecture 4: SOC2080 Week 4 Feb 2 Lecture Notes
11 Feb 2012
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Move onto chpt 6 and 7 next week. Animals lose enzyme to digest milk as reach certain age. Before pasteurization didn t drink b/c often contaminated. Price collapse of depression years: more specialization, in depression- farmers issues. In processing sphere- less and less existed and consolidating that sphere: price cuts, processes under pressure so looking to get milk cheap, production evolved sold cheap to industrial. Dairies playing producers off against each other. League: farmers to come together and protect their interests. Milk control act of 1934: govt brings in legislation (under pressure) to contain sins of the industry, forcing processors to have a bond so if have $ problems, bond will pay for instead of the farmers. Forced licensing and bonding of all milk distributors. Farmers testimony i had a quotaagreement price from textbook. Robart s govt acts: creating the milk pool. Quotas established for each producer based on producers past record of milk production.
