AMST 1154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Meat Packing Industry, Intensive Animal Farming, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMST 1154
• Professor: Rabinovitz Lauren

Document Summary

Any food whose provenance is so complex or obscure that it requires expert help ascertain. Modern agricultural industry: federal regulation, marriage between chemical companies and food producers, cultural authorities. Chemical companies and agriculture: monsanto & dupont: adapting to post-wwii peacetime market, fertilizers, pesticides, genetically engineered corn: denser yield; insect-resistant; herbicide-resistant; drought- resistant; pesticide producing, make more than 50 % of all corn seed. Pesticides: similar trajectory: modern pesticides derived from poison gases developed for military use, production plants converted to pesticide plants after wwii ended, market flooded with modern, more effective pesticides. Monsanto mon 810: 1998: licensed to pioneer as well (dupont takes over in 1999, 2014: march 15, banned in france as harmful to the environment. Monsanto says: reduces need for insecticides & herbicides, fewer trips across the field for farmers, able to grown corn in places previously not possible, amount of acreage has gone up, productivity per acre has gone up.