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

65- The corn plant has colonized how much of the American continent? It has colonized 125000 square miles of America. 2: Pg. 66-67- How have Americas food animals undergone a revolution in lifestyle? Due to the urbanization of humans, the animals went to compacted animal cities and humans took over their land. 3: Pg. 67- What is a CAFO? It is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation. 4: Pg. 67- What happened to the all of the farmland once the animals left? Where did all of the corn go? The farmland was taken over by crops of corn. 5: Pg. 68- What is the idea of a closed ecological loop? Waste does not exist in the loop. 6: Pg. 68- What are the two main problems with animal feedlots? The waste of animals is not clean up and they are changing the way of life for animals who natural selection chose to eat certain foods. 7. Pg 70- What is the coevolutionary relationship between cows and grass? Explain. Cows have stomachs who can turn grass into more grass by fermentation. When cows eat the grass, grass seeds spread and are fertilized by the cow manure. This allows grass to grow more and not be taken over by trees and shrubs. 8. Pg. 71- Why would pastures become the great American desert without ruminant animals? The land is dry and arid and contains low quality faun which the cows and ruminant animal turn into something valuable. 9. Pg. 71- What gets a steer from 80 to 1,000 pounds in just 14 months? Corn, protein and fat supplements, and drugs. 10. Pg. 71- Why is weaning the calves the most traumatic time on the ranch? It takes them off the original evolutionary way of eating and transforms them into a box of beef. 11. Pg. 73- What is the only reason contemporary animal cities arent as plague-ridden or pestilential as their medieval human counterparts? The 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? It contains more omega-3 fatty acids and saturated fat.

14. Pg. 75- What practice of feeding cows led to the Mad Cow Disease? The feeding of rendered cow parts back to the cows for protein. 15. Pg. 77- How are we choosing which cows we want to select to breed? We choose cows that can absorb the most corn without getting sick. 16. Pg. 77- What is the #1 ailment found with cows fed on corn? Why- explain. Bloating can cause suffocation due to the excessive starch and little roughage. 17. Pg. 78- What is acidosis and what does it cause in the cow? It is when the cord is too acidic and can cause the cow to become not itself like eat dirt and can lead to diarrhea and other diseases. 18. Pg. 78- What percentage of cows at slaughterhouses are found to have abscessed livers? 1530%. 19. Pg. 78- What is the leading causes of the evolution of antibiotic resistant superbugs? The antibiotics are being put into animal feed. 20. Pg. 79- What chemicals are found in the manure lagoon on CAFOs? Nitrogen, phosphorus hormone residues, 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 for beef. 2 pounds of corn for 1 chicken. 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? It evolved in the intestines of the cow. It is lethal to humans and cannot be rid of. It can be fixed by allowing the cattle to eat grass a few days before slaughter. 23. Pg. 82- How are the costs associated with the CAFOs externalized? Explain. It takes money from taxpayers, cost of public health infections, and adds to the oxygen depleted zone of the Gulf of Mexico. 24. Pg. 83- Discuss the path of corn backward from the corn fields and discuss the implications. The Persian Gulf has the fossil fuels needed to transport the food throughout the country. It requires more money spent on U.S military and consumes almost a barrel for each cows lifetime. 25. Pg. 83- How much of Americas petroleum usage goes to producing and transporting our food? 1/5 of the petrouleum.

26. Pg. 84- If a cow reaches his full weight- how much oil will he have consumed in lifetime? It will take a barrel for the lifetime. 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 what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 corn and oil- Discuss. Because of the way our meat is package and given to us, we acquire more than just meat. The oil from the transport is added to taxpayers cost. The huge corn industry is controlling how we function and consume. The fault of corn creates numerous problems like food poisoning and debt, eating us away.