SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Neoliberalism, User Fee, Monocropping
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Mono-crops: livestock feed & ingredients in processed foods. Manning: mono-crops when we take acres of lands and plant a single thing, east is potatoes, west usually west, states is corn similar. When we use acres of a single crop, it puts a bull eyes for the bugs that like that specific plants, so we have to use likes of pesticides. Using a land to grow a single plant that isn"t usually used to growing it, must use a lot of fertizilers. 80% of grain grown in usa is diverted to livestock, begins cheaper to feed the livestock. If you raise the speed, the meat is cheaper, takes last time, since 1960s to today suddle increase in amount of meat available pur consumption per person per day. Manning also says if you skip eating meat, you eat a monocrop derivited, 20% of other food is the result of monocrops.
