Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Monism, Genetically Modified Tomato, Langdon Winner

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B
• Professor: Warren Steele

Document Summary

Before tomatoes were picked by hand and now they are mechanically picked. Tomatoes are sorted electronically into large plastic tubs. The harvesters replaced the system of handpicking in which crews of farm workers would pass through the fields three or four times, [picking] (cid:396)ipe to(cid:373)atoes a(cid:374)d sa(cid:448)i(cid:374)g i(cid:373)(cid:373)atu(cid:396)e f(cid:396)uit fo(cid:396) late(cid:396) ha(cid:396)(cid:448)est. (cid:863) Employ the machines to save time and money. Comes at a cost because these mechanical harvesters are big and expensive. Only largest farms can afford these machines, lower their crop costs and cut their workers. Farm workers lose jobs, farmers cannot compete with the turn around, consumers are suffering because the food no longer tastes the same. Video about the girl with the sweet potato: our foods are covered in pesticides. Everything that winner describes from the invention of the tomato harvester and everything it includes in cause and effect, is an example of technique at work.