AMST 1154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Tv Dinner, Wendell Berry, Consumerism
4 May 2017
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The politics of food conclusions : reconnecting with the processes of food production: michael pollan, reconnecting with the labor & economic processes of food production: andrew smith. The food we eat: mcdonald"s french fries, taco bell taco meat, pink slime, antibiotic-free chicken. Industrial model of agriculture: corporate or factory farms, marriage with pharmaceutic and chemical companies, federal regulation. Meat-packing industry: 1906: meat inspection act, 1917: federal trade commission orders breakup of meat company monopoly, 1960: rise of ibp, 1980s: rise of new monopoly dependent on antibiotic and growth hormone-fed animals. Corn: 1933: new deal agriculture act, 1973: farm bill, role of chemical companies & the manufacture of fertilizers, herbicides, & pesticides, since the 1990s: genetically modified corn. Artificial sweetener industry: series of federal regulations, beginning in 1906 pure food and drug act, chemical & pharmaceutical companies, 1950s: rise of diet culture & new imperatives to thinness for white women, 1958: introduction of diet soda pop.
