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  1. Aug 2025
    1. Agribusiness,” theauthor wrote, “has managed to take the old barnyard, worm-eating animaland transform it into a wondrous fast-growing creation bred to live in asynthetic setting.”

      Rise of vertically integrated chicken production systems. Reflects the transformation of agriculture post-WWII and consolidation of food systems Chicken Nuggets, caused by industrial farming innovations, enabling cheap, mass-produced meat.

    2. Young people were especially at the center of these changes. Theyrecognized the ways that institutions—from partisan politics to the militaryto corporations—had failed them

      Tofu's popularity among youth represented a rejection of industrialized, processed, corporate food systems. Provide an alternative to mainstream systems—communes, cooperatives, etc.

    3. food companies were happy to step in and helpwomen with these unreasonable expectations, providing ready-to-eat foodswith “built-in maid service” that housewives could whip up in a jiffy,

      Processed foods like green bean casserole supported a gendered ideal where women were caretakers and consumers, shaping domestic labor and expectations --> gender roles Food industry marketing reinforced women's roles and contributed to domestic econ

    4. In 1955, in the Campbell Soup Company’s test kitchen in Camden, NewJersey, a new recipe was born. It was called Green Bean Bake, and it hadthree basic ingredients: canned green beans, Campbell’s cream of mushroomsoup, and French’s canned fried onions—staples that most 1950s homeswould have on their canned-food-laden shelves.

      Green Bean originated as a produt of postwar industrial food complex and home econ research Designed to promote the use of processed and canned foods Reflect the rise of convenience food culture, shaping American food identity

    5. Wartime mobilization led to a doubling of the gross national productand eliminated unemployment, ending the Great Depression

      Spam's mass production benefited US's wartime industrial expansion The need to feed both troops and civilians drove the scaling of processed food manufacturing Spam is influenced by industrialization and become a symbol of US food tech Reflects how war spurred economic recovery and transformed US industry and food system

  2. Oct 2023
  3. Aug 2023
    1. Why did this education disappear? It was the education ofthe Founding Fathers. It held sway until fifty years ago. Nowit is almost gone. I attribute this phenomenon to two factors,internal decay and external confusion.

      Hutchins attributes the loss of classical education to both internal decay and external confusion, but I would suggest that some of the shift was also the need for industrialization and expanded access.

  4. Mar 2023
    1. 1930s Wilson Memindex Co Index Card Organizer Pre Rolodex Ad Price List Brochure

      archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20230310010450/https://www.ebay.com/itm/165910049390

      Includes price lists

      List of cards includes: - Dated tab cards for a year from any desired. - Blank tab cards for jottings arranged by subject. - These were sold in 1/2 or 1/3 cut formats - Pocket Alphabets for jottings arranged by letter. - Cash Account Cards [without tabs]. - Extra Record Cards for permanent memoranda. - Monthly Guides for quick reference to future dates. - Blank Guides for filing records by subject.. - Alphabet Guides for filing alphabetically.

      Memindex sales brochures recommended the 3 x 5" cards (which had apparently been standardized by 1930 compared to the 5 1/2" width from earlier versions around 1906) because they could be used with other 3 x 5" index card systems.

      In the 1930s Wilson Memindex Company sold more of their vest pocket sized 2 1/4 x 4 1/2" systems than 3 x 5" systems.

      Some of the difference between the vest sized and regular sized systems choice was based on the size of the particular user's handwriting. It was recommended that those with larger handwriting use the larger cards.

      By the 1930's at least the Memindex tag line "An Automatic Memory" was being used, which also gave an indication of the ubiquity of automatization of industrialized life.

      The Memindex has proved its success in more than one hundred kinds of business. Highly recommended by men in executive positions, merchants, manufacturers, managers, .... etc.

      Notice the gendering of users specifically as men here.

      Features: - Sunday cards were sold separately and by my reading were full length tabs rather than 1/6 tabs like the other six days of the week - Lids were custom fit to the bases and needed to be ordered together - The Memindex Jr. held 400 cards versus the larger 9 inch standard trays which had space for 800 cards and block (presumably a block to hold them up or at an angle when partially empty).

      The Memindex Jr., according to a price sheet in the 1930s, was used "extensively as an advertising gift".

      The Memindex system had cards available in bundles of 100 that were labeled with the heading "Things to Keep in Sight".

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