AESC 2050 KIEPPER Exam 2025

What early eating habit was the key to us becoming the Alpha species on the planet? - Non-Selective Omnivores (Eat anything that didn't eat us first) What early human eating habit led to an abundant access of this macronutrient, which was also key in our development? - -Fat The human brain is nearly what percent fat? - -60% Name of actor shown in notes? - -Sylvester Stallone (His movie was ROCKY 3) Why are your eyes on the front of your head? - -Produces large binocular filed of vision. -SWAG 1: if you live in the trees you better have excellent depth perception. -SWAG 2: You are a PREDATOR Why don't we Americans eat animals like dogs, cats, and horses? - -Because its Culturally Unacceptable What animal do the national dishes of Kazakhstan? - -Horses What does "Board" mean in room and board? - --people use to lay a board across their laps to eat off of -board basically means food Why did old drug stores have soda fountains in them? - -To wash down the taste of bad tasting medicine. Famous Atlanta based food product created off the concept of soda fountains in drug stores? - -Coca-Cola Food industry legend? - -Colonel Sanders (KFC) Founder of Wendy's? - -Dave Thomas 3 ingredients in the Chinese chicken soup? - -Liver Intestines Blood Blood meal contains? - -Around 88.5% protein Small Dogs? - -Kept by elites in East Asian and South American societies. Help hunt game, travel via dogsledding, act as guards. AESC 2050 AESC 2050 Horses? - -Were a sign of prestige in Central Asian societies. Provide transport, useful in combat, agriculture. Cats? - -Ancient Egyptians were buried with their cats. Kill pests (protect crops, control disease) How many USA households have pets? - -2/3 What percent of pet owners consider their animal to be family members? - -63% Why are dogs/cats so popular? - -They are the most cost effective Material benefits of modern pets? - -Pets can be service animals. Companionship improves mental health. Pets can help up develop hobbies. Views of rats around the world? - -Cultural values - more negative in West than in East. An example are rats represented in Chinese Zodiac "Rat Temple" in India - Rats are reincarnated family members and considered sacred Difference between pets and food animals? - -Emotional attachment Why the CDC doesn't want you to hug your chicken? - -Salmonella Why keep cats? - -Companionship Popular Animal rights: who gets protection? - --Religious justification -Philosophical justification -Economic justification Speciesism - -Justifies giving preference to beings on the grounds that they are human Animal Welfare Act - -First federal law that covers research animals The animal and plant health inspection service of the us department of agriculture enforces this act by inspecting laboratories and monitoring compliance with the act. Doesn't cover rats, mice, and birds. Advertising? - -To announce or praise a product, service, etc. in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it. The art of arresting the human intelligence just long enough to get money from it. Persuasive Techniques in Advertising? - -Pathos=emotion Logos=logic/reason Ethos=Credibility/ character AESC 2050 When did Aristotle live? - -384-322 BC What shape did Aristotle use to represent the persuasive techniques of advertising? - Triangle Logos - -The straight facts Ethos - -Tries to convince you that a company and/or credible Think "ethics" or "ethical". The "right" thing to do. Pathos - -Attempts to evoke an emotional response. Happiness, Pain, Fear/Guilt Are persuasive techniques used alone or in combination? - -Combination Motivations used in advertising? - -Extrinsic and Intrinsic Implicative Advertising - -Implying that others (e.g., competitors) engage in some activity through one's own denial Propaganda - -Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Juan Francisco De Villena Sáenz (Juan F. DeVillena) (Juanfra) - -Person who was interviewed in lecture video Where is Juan from? - -Lima, Perú Does the country of Peru larger or smaller than the US? - -Smaller Where did Juanfran move to at a young age? (Moved there twice) - -Tacna Family Life - -Cousin=Friend Friend=Cousin Parents friends=Uncle/Aunt What was Juanfran interested in? - -The whole concept of Canned Food. Atomization or Spray-Drying What university did Juanfran attend? - -Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina What major was Juanfran interested in? - -Food Science How many spots were available for Food Science majors at Juanfran university? - -28 Spots for 350 people. (Got in the last spot) AESC 2050 AESC 2050 AESC 2050 Who is always in every story? - -A girl What country did Jaunfra move too after 2nd year in college? - -Tel Aviv, Israel What language did Juanfran have to learn? - -English What type of classes did Juanfra enroll in? - -ESL How many hours of vocational practice at a food processing plant did juanfra need? - 60 hours What operation did Juanfra want to learn about? - -Freeze-Drying Operation Juanfras dad decided that he wasn't learning English fast enough so he sent him where? - -University of Minnesota - "English for Science and Technology" What community center did Juanfran go to at UofM? - -Fairview Community Center for English classes and volunteer How long did it take him to learn English? - -4 months Do not kiss a MN girl because she gets all red. - -Name of book or newspaper maybe What was the second college juanfra attended in the United States? - -University of Maryland Peruvian professor advice - -Okay to say I don't know American professor advice - -Not okay to say I don't know First company Juanfra worked for? - --Perdue Farms Inc -Tough to swallow at first (Orientation) -He got a pager What part of Georgia did Juanfran live in twice while being a QA supervisor for Wayne Farms, LLC? And what part of Arkansas? - -Pendergrass, GA and Danville, AR It's not okay to say no when offered food for Latinos. - -True What are politics? - -the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power. food politics - -involve the governmental control and debate over the production, regulation, inspection, distribution, and consumption of food. Are affected by the ethical, AESC 2050 AESC 2050 cultural, medical, and environmental disputes concerning farming, agricultural and retailing methods and regulations. Food Politics influences both domestically and internationally the: - -Cost of food production and the prices that consumers pay for food. Availability of different food products Safety of the food supply. Non-perishable storable commodity crops: - -Such as corn, rice, wheat are most often at the heart of food politics urban sprawl - -The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land. Nuisance Actions - -a supplement to regulation and litigation under the environmental laws Right to Farm Laws - -Protects agricultural land owners against nuisance complaints from new residents US Food politics focuses on? - -Modern techniques of rearing animals. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO). Genetically Modified Foods. GMOs Green Revolution - -Development and spread of technology, plant varieties, and agricultural practices between 1940s-1960s. Focus on high yield, high nutrient varieties that responded to fertilizers. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - -has jurisdiction over the use of pesticides in crop management and sets tolerances for trace amounts of pesticides that may be found in the supply. NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) - -An international trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico Tariffs - -Taxes on imported and exported goods between the 3 NAFTA countries. Bulk of the NAFTA trading - -1. US and Mexico 2. US and Canada 3. Mexico and Canada Russian Food Embargos - -Following acts of aggression by Russia in the Ukraine (starting in early 2014), several countries imposed sanctions on Russia. The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich (1968) - -Foretold billions of deaths from starvation, and the collapse of civilization AESC 2050 AESC 2050 Norman Borlaug - -Father of the Green Revolution and won a Nobel Peace Prize Due to the green revolution there was an increase in what? - -Increase use of irrigation Cooperative Extension - -The success of the scientific advances produced put increased emphasis and resources in to combining Agriculture with cutting-edge Science to feed to the world Antibiotics - -A medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys bacteria Sub-therapeutic doses - --Increase growth rate and feed efficiency -Prevent or reduce incidence of diseases -Antibiotics in the meat (Not True) Therapeutic doses - --Higher doses, shorter periods -Used to treat specific diseases Hormone - -a regulatory substance produced in an organism and transported in tissue fluids such as blood or sap to stimulate specific cells or tissues into action synthetic substance - -An effect similar to that of an animal or plant hormone Reproductive hormones - --synchronize estrus -induce parturition -used in beef, dairy, pork production Growth Promoting Hormones - --Beef Cattle - Mostly implants - Growth stimulants slowly released over time - Dairy Cattle - rBST rBST- Bovine Somatotropin - -Protein hormone produced by the cow naturally to stimulate milk production Herbicides - -kill specific target "pest" plants, while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed Insecticides - -Substances meant for attracting seducing, destorying, or mitigating insects deemed as "pests" Fertilizers - --Primary nutrients: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium (N-P-K) -Secondary nutrients: Calcium, Magnesium, and Sulfur -Micronutrients: Cooper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, zinc, nickel, boron, silico