MEXICO

Question 1

Patel paper title

Answer 1

you have become Mexican

Question 2

Patel - Agro is NOT a -

Answer 2

pyramid

Question 3

Patel - ____ often poorer than farmers

Answer 3

consumers (BOP)

Question 4

Patel - Free Trade meant that corn -

Answer 4

could be grown in USA / destroying Pesos

Question 5

Patel - at least environmental devistation happened -

Answer 5

on both sides of the border

Question 6

Patel - city centers present regional foods to -

Answer 6

create nationalism / centralize groups

Question 7

Patel - economist predicted “sucking sound”

Answer 7

as 3rd world supposed to rise and overtake the 1st

Question 8

Patel - “sucking sound” not from 3rd world growth, but -

Answer 8

rural to urban migration

Question 9

Patel - suicide numbers are -

Answer 9

not good measure of quality of life / problems

Question 10

Patel - Mexico has more _ than milk

Answer 10

Coke

Question 11

Patel - Petrodollars =

Answer 11

money from sale of oil

Question 12

Patel - what caused Mexican economic crash?

Answer 12

Petrodollars & unbridled loans

Question 13

Patel - even though subsidized, even ___ farmers operating at a loss -

Answer 13

USA

Question 14

Galvez - paper title

Answer 14

“eating NAFTA”

Question 15

Galvez - small stores can no longer compete with -

Answer 15

Walmart and Walmart knock-offs

Question 16

Galvez - only profitable items in small stores =

Answer 16

corporate icecream freezers

Question 17

Galvez - people see __ in new foods?

Answer 17

modernity

Question 18

Galvez - What words have replaced “rights”?

Answer 18

Permit and Responsibility

Question 19

Galvez - BPA banned in Can / US, but -

Answer 19

not in Mexico

Question 20

Galvez - antibiotics reducing -

Answer 20

gut flora

Question 21

Galvez - individuals never exposed to industrial meats -

Answer 21

• way better metabolism!

Question 22

Galvez - Mexicans championing obesity problem -

Answer 22

get death threats

Question 23

Galvez - “healthism” =

Answer 23

blaming poor for NO HEALTHY FOOD

Question 24

Galvez - “energy balance theory” -

Answer 24

weight and urges are not under individual’s control

Question 25

Galvez - obesity not seen as neo-colonialism / but -

Answer 25

neo-lib

Question 26

Lecture - 20th century, wheat =

Answer 26

promise of upward mobility / class and race

Question 27

Lecture - wheat poised to take over, but then suddenly -

Answer 27

CORN REVOLUTION!

Question 28

Lecture - One word meaning “market monopolization”

Answer 28

OLIGOPSONY

Question 29

Lecture - O L I G O P S O N Y

Answer 29

market monopolization

Question 30

Lecture - “hourglass analogy”

Answer 30

• oligopsony, too few purchasers of produce, for too few products - but to a large consumer base

Question 31

Galvez - what precedes market expansion?

Answer 31

creation of desire

Question 32

Galvez - ___ has become as important as production

Answer 32

consumption

Question 33

Galvez - Find ___ for the surplus -

Answer 33

BODIES

Question 34

Lecture - capitalisms are different in practice, why? (example)

Answer 34

Ma & Pap’s store is not the same capitalism as Walmart

Question 35

Galvez - name of small “warung”?

Answer 35

“tiendas”

Question 36

Lecture - vertical integration example:

Answer 36

Oxxo connected to larger corps / soccer teams / distribution deals

Question 37

Lecture - ??? is not a kind of production

Answer 37

consumption

Question 38

Galvez - what is FREE TRADE within the … ?

Answer 38

body?