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The influence of the Quarter Pounder
(a way to look at the structure and power of our current culture)

Food Inc.

Watch full video on KSOL (under "videos") and write 500 word reflection for Extra Credit.

First, we examined what it means to be produced by

a corporation, which is

* Legal Person (with no moral conscience)
* accountable to stock holders
* not to stakeholders
* relatively recent (after the 14th amendment ... between 1890-1910 there were 307 cases brought to the court ... 288 on behalf of corporations, just 19 for people.)


Watch all 23 parts and write 500 word reflection for Extra Credit.

The corporation is the dominant institution with tremendous structural power:
power and inequality embedded in (and produced by) economic, social, political, and ideological structures
* Hard Power + Soft Power
* Not In Individuals ("if not me then somebody else")
* Can lead to structural violence

Examples of Structural Violence:

* Environmental (Intergenerational Tyranny)
* Inequality .. Financial/Material (poverty, hunger)
* Health (not only starvation and illness in developing countries, but also obesity in the USA, etc.)(life span, mortality rate, illness)
* Psychology .. identity, self-worth, knowledge (example of Dove and Axe, McDonald's Advertising)

Structural Violence at home ... scene from The Accountant

What’s in a quarter pounder?
  • Over 1 pound of corn
  • Over 200 gallons of water
  • 26 ounces of oil
  • 13 pounds of carbon
  • Soaring obesity rate (now 33.8%)
  • 1 in 3 at risk of diabetes (1 in 2 minorities)
  • E. Coli
  • Ammonia
  • $500 billion+ in extra health care costs
  • 7 years of life expectancy
  • The end of the family farm



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Britt44 absence 0 Nov 28 2010, 9:37 PM EST by Britt44
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I think another interesting factor to bring into this lecture would be the results of that move "Supersize Me." The power that fast food brings to our country has a huge influence on our growing obesity and diabetes rates. Also, the high cholesterol, blood pressure and heart issues that come with fast food is important to continue as well. If people thought about "we are what we eat" more, they might be more willing to understand why these rates are increasing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Lkyb6SU5U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDbocZ438f0&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrHr4eB17Yw&feature=fvst
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