GE CLST M1B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: North American Free Trade Agreement, Raj Patel, Eric Schlosser
30 Aug 2016
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Stuffed and starved by raj patel: (supermarket layout) Shows how healthy/ necessity food items are in the back of store. Talked about how supermarkets evolved from cashiers helping you get your items, to a self shopping. Rhode"s conundrum: poor didn"t have enough eat; elite sought to bring food from other countries; believed poor would go after rich; Fast food nation by eric schlosser: (migrant workers) Monfort hired recent immigrants to work at greeley slaughterhouse. Average worker quit/ fired every three months. High turnover rate results in harder to unionize force and and easier to control. Land grabbing in africa by tinyade kachika: (land grabbing) Land grabbing in africa is a big problem because of foreign investor"s desire to acquire large pieces of land in africa. Pursued for food security and energy interests. You have become mexican by raj patel (part of stuffed and starved): (mexico and. Lee dies and mexican farmers started saying lee, you have become mexican.
