Scratch Notes:

● Monsters Inc.
● Incorporated- company
● Food company – a company of food
● Competition
● Food industry has changed
● False images are being put in peoples minds – illusions
● No seasons, tomatoes all year long
● Meat aisle, has no bones,
● Industry does not want us to know about the food, Or else u wouldn't eat it
● Farm vs Factory
● Animals are being abused
● Where are food comes from is hidden from us
● MNC- Multinational corporations – many companies around the world
● What are the pros and cons of MNCs
● Not just our health is at risk
● The companies don't want anyone to know about the process
● Industry revolution – no one in the company knows how to put the whole
thing together- may only know how to glue
● Not enough money is given- cause you don’t have enough skill
● Were told to put only little bit of sauce and onions- cause of costs
● 1970- 5 companies – only got 20%
● Today top 4 control 80%
● There are chicken that don’t see sunlight
● After the company Tyson visits- the farmer changed is mind
● Did not want to show anymore what's inside the chicken house
● Growing a chicken in 48 days
● They have broken legs for rapid growth to much wait, to fast for them and
heavy
● The mass food industry- antibiotics
● Workers that collect chicken have no option
● Have no working rights cant say about the work conditions
● the companies keep the farmers under, cause of debt and a contract
● They have to take loans to meet the contract
● Have the farmers under their thumb
● If they break their contract that may cause them their whole life and there
land for farming
● You have to meet their standards
● Basically you are a slave to the company
● Cornucopia
● A grocery store is a illusion of diversity
● It's not though, one or two products are linked together
● 30% of the United States land grows corn
● A lot of the farmers in US get discounts of growing corn
● So they grow a lot more than what they eat
● Force the farmers to grow so much corn
● 50% of the terms
● Corn can be in diapers, ketchup, batteries
● We feed corn to cows because its cheap
● They feed it to fish too
● Cheap corn has allowed us to lower our food prices for other foods
● CAFO- concentrated animal Feeding Operation
● We need good bacteria to break down food
● That is why cows can't eat corn,
● Cows that are fed corn have, bad bacteria
● Cows are stuck in one spot, they poop, if one cow is sick then all are sick
● Unattended Consequences
● E coli is not just in meat but now in vegetables- spinach
● Thousands of salter houses - 1970
● Now only about 13
● Meeting with a government only have 15 minutes
● Self policing for the industries
● Hemorrhagic E coli – bacteria – causes internal bleeding
● Caused by Hamburgers
● About three weeks later they found about it was their they it was already
out
● Found 0ut on August 1st
● But told on like August 27
● Like after it was out and in of people's bodies
● 1998 – plants failed the inspections
● Kevin's law would give the right USAD to shut down the failed plants
● A proposed law
● Six years since of her son's death, still has not made the law
● Two E. coli outbreaks occurred that day
● Instead of finding the route cause they look at the other end,
● They are gonna keep them eating corn and look for a different solution
● Rather than look for a solution, they’ve gone to tech
● Hamburgers meat had been cleared with ammonia to kill E. coli
● The Dollar Menu
● Prices- compared to healthy (vegetables)and hamburgers
● The biggest predictor of obesity income level
● Have to make choices
● Salt, sugar, fat -
● 1 in 3 kids born in 2000's will onset diabetes
● Poly-face farms
● Factory chicken goes through chlorine
● Slaughterhouse
● The killed hogs 32,000 killed everyday
● Unskilled labor you do the same thing for about 8 hours everyday
● Mexican farmers-
● Mexico use to grow a lot of corn
● Only the workers get arrested not the people who own the business
● Hidden Costs
● Comparison
● Not all of us can buy locally
● Stonyfield was acquired by group Danone a $23 billion food conglomerate
● Still stayed on ^^^
● Not that many people know that company
● Walmart does not have its own grown ranch
● They say we want what the customer wants- no they don't they want
money, whatever sells
● From seed to the supermarket
● Patent
● Patenting life –
● Monsanto - business making chemical poison
● In Vietnam war they made poison for the fields
● In 1996 when Monsanto began selling roundup ready soybeans on 2 %
soybean on in the US contain their patented gene
● By 2008 over 90% of soybeans in US contained Monsanto's patented gene
● Seed saving, you save good seeds than later on in the year they plant
them
● Seed companies wanted to make it illegal to save seeds
● Monsanto had 75 staff investigated
● GMOs genetically modified seeds- David's fields have be contaminated by
them,
● If you want to get a lawyer just calling him for 5 minutes they make $300
dollars, which is hard for farms
● Farmers must prove their innocence
● A blacklist- if you name goes on this list it means no good and idiom or
metaphor
● Settlement- doesn't mean your guilty, but you have agreed to take the
punishment, if you publicly settle it means you guilty, you pay a fee, is an
agreement with the two who were fighting
● Monsanto is so big that they own soy bean, basically any product with
soybean it leads you to Monsanto
● The Veil
● Labeling GMOs is a big issue
● They want them to be labeled so that the consumers have a right to
choose which one they want
● Industry does not agree she insulted us consumers, she thinks we will
have unnecessary fear
● 70% of food have some kind of GMO ingredient
● Oprah got sued for saying something bad about beef
● You have to be careful of what you say
● Shocks to the system
● To eat well cost more than to eat bad
● We need a change, with the food industries they need to do a better job
and be more careful
● We need companies that respect animals and our health
● Cook a meal with your family and sit together
● The food we get travels 1,500 miles a day