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Industrial Organic Food Chain
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Growing
After Harvest
Chapter 10: Cows are grown almost exactly like they were in the industrial food chain. Fruits and vegetables aren't made on big farms, like the ones shown on Cascadian. Instead, these crops are grown identical to the corn grown at George Naylor's farm. The only difference is that organic companies don't use chemical fertilizer's or antibiotics.
Chapter 11: Chickens are grown in what people call "Animal factories." These factories give chikens little room to walk around in.
Chapter 10: After being harvested, Earthbound washes there lettuce in a factory.
Chapter 11: Some crops are loaded on to a truck right after they are picked.
Inputs
Additional Information
Transportation
- The USDA says that a product that is organic only needs ninety five percent of the ingredients are organic
- Big companies like Cascadian Farms started small, but get bigger so they can stay alive
- Cascadian is on owned by General Mills.
Chapter 10+11: Anything from the organic food chain travels on planes, trains and automobiles. The problem with this is that we are using fifty seven calories of fossil fuels for every calorie of food.
Chapter 10: Instead of antibiotics and pesticides, farmers feed there livestock organic corn and organic grains. This sounds better, but cows aren't meant to eat cow, and still get sick. Instead of chemical fertilizer, farmers use poultry manure to help grow there crops.
Unintended Outputs
Consumers
Chapter 11: The consumer is getting fruit, meat, and vegetables without pesticides.
Chapter 10: We are getting more land that haven't been infected by toxic fertilizers, saving it for the future.
Chapter 11: We are using to much fossil fuels to transport there goods. This also causes an incredible amount of pollution.