UGC 211 1st Edition Lecture 14Food Inc. Filmo Industry not telling you exactly what you’re eating because you won’t eat o Meat is being processed by huge corporations, coming from huge assembly lines, food much more dangerous, workers and animals being abused o Companies don’t want farmers talking, or this story told o Whole industrial food system began with fast food o 1930s drive in for food o McDonalds fast food huge success, teaching workers to perform one job, easy, and paid them low wages o Changed how ground beef was produced o Handful of companies controlling our food system o Three or four companies controlling the meat – big and powerful o Tyson (meat packing company) o Redesign the chicken to have large breasts (white meat) – changed the chicken o Changed the farmers o Produce a lot of food on small amount of land at an affordable price o Grow a chicken quicker o Chickens never see sunlight, always in dark o Farmers don’t want to talk o Rapid growth, they can’t carry their own weight, so they fall down o Chicken houses are packed, fifthly, species and dust everywhere o To build one poultry house $280,000 o Farmers debt keeps building – companies tell them what to do (slaves to the company) o At supermarket it looks like a lot of variety, but really it’s just an illusion o 200 bushels of corn is not a problem to grow o Engineer new foods o Many products have corn o High fructose corn syrup o Corn is main component of feeding animals o So much corn drives down the price of meat o E. Coli evolves in cows that are fed corn. It’s found in spinach and apple juice o Processing plants are get larger, pathogens are being processed o 13 slaughter houses – processed majority of beef o Thousands of different cattle in a patty of meat o Kevin’s Law – can shut down companies who fail contamination tests repeatedlyo Skewed our food system to bad calories, they are heavily subsidized o Come from wheat, corn and soy beans – bad calories o Income is tied to obesity o Salt, fat, and sugar – tastes people go for These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o Spikes in insulin, wearing down of hour body metabolizes sugar o Diabetes is now affecting childreno Teddy Roosevelt and Beef Trust o Meat packing worker – good wage, good pension until companies got bigger o Meat packing one of the most dangerous jobs o Illegal immigrants working for the meat packing companies, they used to be corn farmers in Mexico o More than a million and half Mexican farmers were put out of work – couldn’t compete with the corn expense in