Food OUTLINE !

OUTLINE

Overarching Thesis: In the United States capitalism has fostered the success of the elite, which they increase with nightmarish industrial atrocities and maintain through tatemae. Thus creating inferior social practices for the dominant population.

Argument #1: Food production and consumption in the United States is centralized around the producer’s fulfillment versus the consumer’s interest. Which has caused major mass industrializations, resulting in un-healthy and dangerous results for the consumer and workers(of industry).

Chunk #1(capitalism elite): The government supports and facilitates the corporations.

• “The Bush administration and the .. health.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation read on section pg. 7
• “Fast Food chains have accepted … gave job training to the poor.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg. 72
• “ a study of campaign contributions … any other congressman.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation Pg. 210
• “while the real value of the wages paid … a fast food hamburger”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg. 73

Chunk #2(industrial): The CEO’s (not farmers or cooks or butchers) sole interest is to expand as far as possible, to receive the biggest profit for the cheapest cost. (quote corn man foodinc.)

• “Simplot, Lamb Weston … rivals.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg.116
• “but the extraordinary … who grew the potatoes.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg.117
• “it cost about 1,500 … single potato”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg.117
• “The line is so fast … when you cut yourself”
SOURCE: http://www.hrw.org/en/node/11869/section/5
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• -Nebraska Beef meatpacking line worker, Omaha, Nebraska, December 2003

Chunk #2b/3a(tatemae): A façade is created by the corporations to brain wash the consumers with the illusion that they are receiving the highest quality.

• “ a corporate memo…a trusted friend.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg.50
• Propaganda examples
SOURCE: http://www.mcspotlight.org/company/publications/nutrition_balance.html
• Farm images on lables

Chunk #3(inferior social practices): The American population has been tricked through the dominant discourse, now becoming inferior with how they nourish themselves .

• “The growth in children’s advertising has been … advertising strategies.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg.43
• ‘the labor structures of … workers.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg.78
• “a memo sought to explain the underlying … like a good parent”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation pg.50
• “translate into … 5 times a week.”
SOURCE: Fast Food Nation