Outline+for+Chapter+6

Ch 6 __Vocab__ __Quotes__: __Rhetorical Terms:__
 * Vilified (verb pg. 134)to speakillof;defame;
 * Amicus (Adjective pg. 144) of or pertaining to.
 * Stagnant. stale; not running (as in water)
 * “Independent ranchers and feed lots now have a hard time figuring out what their cattle are actually worth, let alone finding a buyer for them at the right price” (138).
 * “Eight chicken processors now control about two thirds of the American Market” (139).
 * "We spent hours driving around Colorado Springs, looking at how the New West was burying the Old." (133)
 * "America's independent cattlemen have truly become an endangered species." (136)
 * Pathos: The author uses a man named Hank and his family to show how much the love their ranch. However, it gets really sad because Hank commits suicide once ranching gets too stressful.
 * Ethos: “They are independent and self-sufficient, cherish their freedom, believe in hard work- and as a result are now paying the price” (145). The author uses good American qualities to describe men.
 * Juxtaposition: While the tour of the ranch goes through the natural fields, Hank shows the author a new race car stadium to contrast with the other surroundings.

Summary: The author goes to a ranch to tour what it is like and realizes that the owning family loves the land. However, big businesses and fast food places are getting their meat from big companies who, in turn, make it hard for small ranchers, like Hank, to sell anything. These big businesses are also controlling prices for meat and keeping it secret so the ranchers don’t even know what they should receive for their meat. The pressure of this ranching lifestyle is so strong that Hank ends up dying and many other ranchers still face hardships in their job.

__A New Trust__ __Breasts of Mr. McDonal__d __Captives__ __Threat of Wealthy Neighbors__ __Broken Link__
 * higher land prices, large amounts of cattle, low beef prices
 * logos-in 20 years, 500,000 ranchers have quit
 * McD 1968 local suppliers 175, present day 5
 * references to history-trusts and trustbusters
 * Meat packing industries less hired and get less money
 * big companies hire ranches to do work for them=more power to big companies
 * McNuggets contain double the fat per ounce than hamburger
 * plain folk
 * Tyson dominates chicken production--90%
 * 3 $150,000 chicken houses, 25,000 birds, $12,000 a year
 * 3 years 9 months to pay off without spending on anything else
 * Chicken processors won't disclose terms of contract
 * no unions
 * average person consumes 681lbs. beef per year
 * american beef cannot be exported to the European Union because the growth hormone is banned
 * 20 years lost 1.5 million acres to development
 * people losing interest in ranching
 * Hank suicide 1998 age 43
 * stress of prices and development
 * suicide rate among ranchers is 3x higher than the national average