The Grand Food Bargain

 22 Index

industrialization, 8 – 9 , 65 – 66
infinity, illusion of, 2 
inspections, meat industry and,  49 ,
 5 – 58 ,  6 
insurance, 95 – 96
Inter-American Institute for
Cooperation on Agriculture
(IICA),  5 , 2 
investment banks,  8 –  9
Iowa,  4 , , 9 , 99
Iowa State University, , 
Ireland,  9 
irrigation, , 80

Jack in the Box,  5 – 52
Jari project (Brazil), 200 – 202
Jefferson, Thomas, 69 , 8 ,  2 ,
– 2

Kalahari Bushmen, – 5 ,  6 , 2  2 – 2 
Kansas, 98
Kathmandu, 89
Kellogg’s,  6 – 
kerosene, 
Kessler, David, 24 
ketchup,  84
knowledge as power,  20
Kohler, Robert,  0 
Kraft,  5

labeling
certification and, 2 , 224
flours and,  2 – 
Kraft and,  5
overview of,  6 –  9
of packaged foods,  4
Land-Grant Act,  06 –  0 
language, 48 – 49 , 5 
lantern oil, 
lean finely textured beef, .

See also beef slurry; pink slime

licensing agreements,  0 – ,  9

Lincoln, Abraham, , 92

lions, 4 – 46

Listeria,  54

lobbying, 9 – 94

locusts, 52

loss leaders,  9

Louisiana Territory,  0

Ludwig, Daniel, 200 – 202

Lynn, Barry,  4

Lysenko, Trofim,  24

mad cow disease,  49 –  50 ,  8 – 82.

See also BSE, bovine

spongiform encephalopathy

Madison, James, 8 , 98 ,  00 , 

malaria,  08

malnutrition,  0

Malthus, Thomas Robert,  05 ,  06

Marine Stewardship Council

(MSC), 2 

market economics

assigning value and,  4 – 42

changing conditions and, – 4

consolidation and,  8 –  9

contract farming and,  6 – 

deregulation and,  40 –  4 

free markets and,  5 –  6

Thomas Jefferson and, – 2

whale oil and, 

mass extinctions, 226

McDonalds,  52 , 225

meat

bovine spongiform

encephalopathy and,  49 –  50

consolidation and,  2

E. coli and,  50 –  52

efficiency and, 2  5 – 2  6

food safety and,  48