Week 11

Question 1

What is fordism?

Answer 1

Fordism refers to a capitalist accumulation strategy emerged in early 20th Century in the US. Fordism involves mass production for mass consumption. Fordism was the prevailing accumulation regime during the post-World War II era. Consumerism refers to the ideology that has encouraged the acquisition of goods and services in ever - increasing amounts.

Question 2

What are the consequences of fordism in the food system ?

Answer 2

• Intensification and industrialization of agriculture
• Emergence of a consumer economy
• The development of durable food and intensive meat commodity complexes
• Strong state protection for agriculture (surpluses)
• Use of food aid and global trade to integrate the developing economies to the world markets
• globalization through transnational corporations and international organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank and international trade agreements meatification of diets

Question 3

What is Mcdonaldization?

Answer 3

Mcdonaldization is the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of american society as well as of the rest of the world

Question 4

What does George Ritzer say about mcdonaldization?

Answer 4

a trend that emphasizes, rationalization of production by stressing efficiency, calculating, predictability and control of the production process.

Question 5

What are some Irrationality of rationality?

Answer 5

Deskilling: (using workers with minimal knowledge and skill levels)
Dehumanizing (assembly line, limited menu, unhealthy food)
Because of over-attention to rationality “both employees and customers suffer from arious irrationalities of rationality (Ritzer, 2004:269)
Gains in efficiency is not for consumers or workers (waiting on the line, cleaning after yourself, priority for convenience not the content, low wages for the employees
Environmentally costly (packaging, hidden costs of input, wastefulness)
Externalities are the hidden prices behind the cost of the food

Question 6

What does the green revolution refer to?

Answer 6

to a productionist paradigm that aimed to transform agriculture in the developing countries by using agro-chemical inputs, agricultural machinery and high yield hybrid seeds

Question 7

What is the green revolution?

Answer 7

The gr raised yields and provided better advantages to wealthier producers who
However, decline in labour needs and access to land for poor farmers as a result of mechanization of agriculture resulted in the rise of poverty, hunger and malnourishment in the countryside

Question 8

What are the enivronmental consequences of GR

Answer 8

resulted in increasing yields in grain production, it also led to:
Mono-cropping and decline in biodiversity
Environmental degradation as a result of decline in soil and water quality and pollution by agrochemicals

Question 9

What is distancing?

Answer 9

“Separating people from the sources of their food and nutrition with as many interventions as possible’ (kneen, 1995:11). Distance is both physical and informational” (cited in Knezevic, 2017)

Question 10

What are food miles?

Answer 10

the distance food travels from the time of its production until it reaches the consumer. The food system causes 15-18% of global greenhouse

Question 11

What are the prime reasons for desertification?

Answer 11

Overgrazing, deforestation and unsustainable farming practices are prime reasons for desertification

Question 12

What are the results from soil mining ?

Answer 12

loss of key nutrients and soil organisms

Question 13

what are the results from soil erosion ?

Answer 13

5-7 million hectares of farming land

Question 14

What are the 3 key ingredients in fertilizer ?

Answer 14

nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium

Question 15

run off nutrients from excess nutrients cause what?

Answer 15

eutrophication (oxygen depleting algae blooms) killing aquatic life

Question 16

What is colony collapse disorder ?

Answer 16

refers to causing harm to honey bees and they are dying at an alarming rate because of it

Question 17

What are reverse protein factories?

Answer 17

The cycling of grains and oilseeds through livestock is an inefficient way to produce food” ( Weis, 2017: 127). Lappe calls this wasteful way of utilizing food sources for growing animal protein” reverse protein factories

Question 18

Prolonged irrigation leads to?

Answer 18

problems of waterlogging, nutrient leaching and salinization when the dissolved salt in water is left behind after evaporation

Question 19

A report by Andy Jones produced for Sustain and Elm Farm Research Centre titled “Eating Oil: Food Supply in a Changing Climate” claimed?

Answer 19

claims that“Every time we eat, we are all essentially ‘eating oil’. Virtually all of the processes in themodern food system are dependent upon this finite resource” (Jones, 2002

Question 20

What are prions?

Answer 20

are misfolded forms of protein and they result in some diseases.

Question 21

Can ammonia kill prions and mad cow?

Answer 21

Ammonia cannot kill prions and mad cow like it does to E.coli and Salmonella

Question 22

What is pink slime?

Answer 22

Mixture of waste meat and fatty parts that get grinded up and treated for E.coli and salmonella with ammonia.
Add some of this extra lean protein slime to other lacking cuts of meat to enhance it with protein, people pay a fuckton thinking its good shit even though it aint.

Question 23

What glyphosate?

Answer 23

Type of herbicide that is used on a common lawn in the home as well as in corn(big surprise)
Lotta words here that he’s just glossing over and diseases like cancer parkinson’s and infertility

Question 24

What are some problems from factory farms and feedlots:

Answer 24

FActory farms and feedlots result in concentration of large numbers of animals in confinements. Use of manufactured feeds, antibiotics, hormones impact the health of animal and eaters of meat. Factory farms also result in air and water pollutants.