AHSS 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kevin Archer, Food Contaminant, Formaldehyde
16 Jun 2018
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Contamination
• Matter out of plae, soethig that eds up where it shouldt e, all aout drawig
boundaries
➢ Ie. Meia street rat
o Rat was not where it was supposed to be (safe, secure, domestic realm)
➢ Ie. Girl i the seod had dress
o Died of formaldehyde poisoning
o Any dress that has been on a corpse should not end up in a store meant
for the living
o Women should have been buried in the dress
➢ Ie. The Viratig Catus
o Vibrating because it was full of tarantulas
o Came from a different plae, shouldt e there
• Bugs and things are prevalent in these stories because we have been culturally taught to
find them disgusting
➢ Violates sanitary life, violates borders
➢ Ie. Coforter with aggots i it
➢ Ie. McDonalds Playhouse, under the play balls (Kevin Archer)
Food Contamination
• Most contamination legends are about food. Why?
➢ People are constantly eating
➢ You trust the people that are preparing food
o You assume that the food is sanitary
• Who is doing the contamination and why?
➢ Sometimes its accidental
o Ie. The person in the barrel in the alcohol solution that people drank
(accidental cannibalism stories)
➢ Sometimes the contaminator is big business
o Accidental
▪ Ie. Ketuk fried rat: rat just aidetall fell i, o oes fault
▪ Ie. Snake that got in the coke
o Intentionally
▪ Ie. Rumour that McDonalds used worms in burgers to use less
meat
▪ Diet pills with the tape worms in them
Bosom Serpent Legend
• Legend about animal that gets inside human and lives there
➢ Ie. Parasites in stomach
o Medieval prototype to story
• Diet pills is modern day version of story
➢ “oeties its foreigers
➢ Ethnic food contamination
o Two very picked on groups are Mexicans and Asians
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