Download Summarizing the Impact of Corn on Agriculture and Food Industry and more Summaries Marketing in PDF only on Docsity!
Day 42 February 22 / 23 Welcome Back!
Did you finish reading ch 9?
Goals:
- Summarize ch 1 - 3
- Reading check ch 5 - 9
- Key terms up to supersize ( 95 )
- Literal questions up to p 99
- HW: Read ch 12 and finish the literal
questions to p 99 - the end of ch 9.
Ch 1. How Corn Took over America
So many modern foods contain corn (even wax &
building materials). The supermarket is a field of corn.
Maize spread throughout the world b/c it's easily
stored & an important part of animal feed.
Ch 2. The Farm
One farmer feeds 140 (in 1919 it was 12 ). Modern farm
has lost all diversity thanks to hybrids and GMO seeds
(Frankenseeds). Corn won in driving animals and
people off the land.
Ch 3. From Farm to Factory Farms used to produce more energy (calories) than they used; now, instead of using free energy from the sun, farms need fossil fuel to fertilize the soil (using nitrogen - originally from bomb factories), causing nitrogen pollution. Because corn is so cheap, farmers need government subsidies to stay in business.
Copy the definitions; (find the context clues later)
hidden costs 50 , 214 expenses that a product will eventually cause and that are not included in the price of the product factory farm 57 , 58 a farm that depends on outside raw materials, fossil fuels, and produces one crop commodity 53 an article of commerce; a mass produced product (uniform) surplus 58 what is left over after you have taken what you need
Ch 4 Food on the Ground Corn the Commodity River of Corn Ninety Thousand Kernels
Huge silos store vast amounts of corn before it is sent into
the "river" as a commodity as animal feed or processed food
products. Cargill & ADM control this river, from the GMO
seeds, to the fertilizers and pesticides, to the silos. The farm
has become an industrial factory.
Steps:
- Look at the title
- Skim the section,
noting the main idea
for that part
Terms
Ch 5 City of Cows CAFO - Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Steer Number 534 Cows and Grass - A Partnership Cow Chow New Home, New Diet Cattle Eating Cattle Sick from Corn Antibiotics for Animals My Steer
The feedlot (CAFO) is a great animal city or beef factory where
cattle are forced to eat an unnatural diet of corn instead of
grass. (Cattle evolved to eat grass.) There are health problems
for the cattle and hidden costs for the environment.
ch 6
Splitting the Kernel
INdustrial DIGESTION
Starch into Sugar
Cereal Secrets
Can You Eat More, Please?
Food that Doesn't Feed
Corn is broken down (digested) and combined in new ways (processed) as new food products: sugars, starches, and additives. Sweeteners (esp. HFCS) are the most important by-product of corn. Food companies encourage us to eat more "food" that does not really nourish. Ch 7 Can You Eat More, Please Part II Extra Calories A Sweet Deal Supersize! Cheap Fat The extra calories from corn sweeteners are contributing to obesity. Corn products are cheaper than other healthy foods. Food companies are supersizing our portions.
