Westwood English 149 Fall 2011 Fast Food Nation, Chapter 7: Cogs in the Great Machine 1.

According to Schlosser, what is the best book on todays meatpacking industry? How did Schlosser use the books contents or sources to help him conduct further research? Trace as thoroughly and precisely as you can his use of primary and secondary sources after reading scholarly research papers from this text. Any Way you Cut It: schlosser conducts interview with Gouveia after reading her essays. 2. Schlosser claims that each steer in a feedlot typically produces about fifty pounds of urine and manure every day. How does he support this? Schlosser read this statistic from an article citation As Greeley Ponders Tax, Cows keep on Doing their thing Denver Post, July 29, 1995. 3. Explain how the IBP Revolution has helped transform both rural towns such as Dakota City, Nebraska, as well as urban zones like Chicagos Union Stockyards. Took the Mcdonald system, instead of an assembly line they had a disassembly line. Fired all skilled workers for cheap labor 4. According to Fast Food Nation, how much was ConAgra fined between 1989 and 1997 as a result of class-action lawsuits and conviction of fraud? $39.1 million 5. Where does IBP often send labor recruiting teams and why? Poor communities promising visas, citizenship Shelters people looking to get out Both above because theyre highly pursuable 6. Why might meatpacking-insurance companies and slaughterhouses promote/support migratory-labor patterns? Since they want low pay, and there are no benefits until worker has been with company for 3-6 months sometimes over a year.