The Omnivores Dilemma Chapter #4- The Feedlot (Making Meat) 1: Pg.

65- The corn plant has colonized how much of the American continent? The corn plant has colonized 120,000 square miles of the American continent 2: Pg. 66-67- How have Americas food animals undergone a revolution in lifestyle? Animals left widely dispersed farms to live in densely populated new animal cities 3: Pg. 67- What is a CAFO? Concentrated Animal Feed Operation 4: Pg. 67- What happened to the all of the farmland once the animals left? Where did all of the corn goes? The corn went in places like the paddocks, pastures and barnyards that used to be animal territory. 5: Pg. 68- What is the idea of a closed ecological loop? Waste ceases to exist 6: Pg. 68- What are the two main problems with animal feedlots? Chemical fertilizers and a pollution problem 7. Pg. 70- What is the evolutionary relationship between cows and grass? Explain. Cows maintain the grass by preventing trees from taking up all the sunlight. The grass gives the cow food. 8. Pg. 71- Why would pastures become the great American desert without ruminant animals? Pastures wouldn't be able to grow any crops in the arid regions 9. Pg. 71- What gets a steer from 80 to 1,000 pounds in just 14 months? Corn, protein and fat supplement 10. Pg. 71- Why is weaning the calves the most traumatic time on the ranch? Weaning causes the calves to mope and bellow for days 11. Pg. 73- What is the only reason contemporary animal cities arent as plague-ridden or Pestilential as their medieval human counterparts? Modern antibiotic 12. Pg. 73- So if the modern CAFO is a city built upon commodity corn, it is a city afloat on an Invisible sea of ____________ Petroleum 13. Pg. 75- Why is corn fed meat less healthy for us? Humans have not adapted to ruminants that eat corn 14. Pg. 75- What practice of feeding cows led to the Mad Cow Disease? Feeding cow parts back to cows 15. Pg. 77- How are we choosing which cows we want to select to breed? Based on eating a large amount of corn 16. Pg. 77- What is the #1 ailment found with cows fed on corn? Why- explain. Bloat the fermentation of the rumen that produces a lot of gas which can be trapped in a slimy layer forms. 17. Pg. 78- What is acidosis and what does it cause in the cow? Causes the cow to go off their feed, pant and salivate excessively and eat dirt

18. Pg. 78- What percentage of cows at slaughterhouses is found to have abscessed livers? Between 15 and 30 percent 19. Pg. 78- What is the leading causes of the evolution of antibiotic resistant superbugs? Antibiotics that end up in animal food 20. Pg. 79- What chemicals are found in the manure lagoon on CAFOs? Nitrogen, phosphorus, heavy metals, hormone residue and persistent chemicals 21. Pg. 80- How many pounds of corn does it take to make 4 pounds of beef? What is the ratio? For chicken? 32 pounds of corn to make 4 pounds of beef. The ratio for chicken is 2:1, or 8:4. 22. Pg. 82- How has the new strain of E. coli (O157: H7) evolved and what is the problem with it? How can this problem be fixed? E. coli has a new acidic-resistance, the problem is that it can shake off in the acid bath in our stomachs and kill us. It can be fixed by to reverse acidification. 23. Pg. 82- How is the costs associated with the CAFOs externalized? Explain. Externalized based on environmental costs. Spraying fertilizer, pesticides and using water to grow the corn and if these externalized costs are included, corn would be very expensive. 24. Pg. 83- Discuss the path of corn backward from the corn fields and discuss the implications. Corn starts in the fields a monoculture under rain of pesticide and fertilizer. Fertilizer needs to grow the corn so it finds itself all the way to the oil fields. It takes a lot to grow corn and growing corn has a lot of consequences. 25. Pg. 83- How much of Americas petroleum usage goes to producing and transporting our food? 1/5 26. Pg. 84- If a cow reaches his full weight- how much oil will he have consumed in lifetime? 35 gallons of oil 27. Pg. 84- You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 corns and oil- Discuss. We are eating what the cow ate in its lifetime up until it being slaughter and being in the grocery store and finally on my plate. If we are eating a cow, then we eat 35 gallons of oil and more than a thousand pounds of corn.