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Item Factory Farm to Table: Agriculture’s Impact on Austin’s Working Class(2018-04-06) Cavanaugh, KerriFactory farming accounts for the production of 99% of meat in America. Factory farm practices are often unethical, dangerous, and hidden from public view. Despite the often unseen work of this industry, factory farming plays a major role in American diets and food choices. The lobbying done by the corporations who own factory farms (like Tyson’s), and those corporations who utilize factory produced food (like McDonald’s), have helped shape government regulations and subsidies to their benefits, resulting in low cost, high calorie foods being more accessible than nutritious foods. This paper explores how the ways individuals can afford to eat shapes the ways the individuals think about themselves and their places in society. This is achieved first by looking at government nutritional guides and funding for food, and the consequences these decisions create for consumers. Next, it will look at how factory farms came to exist and how these practices affect the employees within the factories. Then, it looks into a government bill on obesity and how such proposed legislation shapes public attitudes on obesity. The fourth chapter analyses surveys and a focus group that were conducted as part of this study. Lastly, long-term and short-term solutions to America’s food production system will be discussed.Item Speak no evil : controversial research monkey facilities find a haven in small-town south Texas(2018-06-19) Rodriguez, Louise Tonneson; Brenner, R. B. (Robert B.)For over four decades, two secretive facilities in Alice, Texas, have imported, quarantined, bred and shipped to laboratories across the country thousands of rhesus and macaque monkeys. And residents grateful for employment in this rural oil & gas town – the site of a nationwide 1996 monkey Ebola scare – remain protective of the industry, despite persistent community rumors about poor monkey handling, animal escapes and past employees infected with a deadly monkey-borne virus.