1. How does Dale Lasater's method of cattle raising differ from the major feedlots?
2. What is "new urbanism?"
3. What sets In-N-Out burger apart from the other fast food chains?
4. How do In-N-Out burger and McDonalds fare in the Restaurants and Institutions surveys?
5. How has the US Defense budget acted as a "form of industrial policy?"
6. The author states that some of our greatest accomplishments "stand in complete defiance of the free market." What are some examples of these accomplishments? How do they defy free market principles?
7. How does the annual cost of obesity compare with the total revenues of the fast food industry?
8. What percentage of American children consumes a McDonald's meal each month?
9. How do the food safety laws of the US compare to those in other countries? Give 1 example of the efforts of another country.
10. Compare the harm caused by illegal drug use and food poisoning.
11. Why do the IBP workers like the days in which they process beef that is exported to Europe?
12. What are "veggie libel" laws? How are some of them similar to the libel laws in Britain?
13. What changes does the author suggest to improve the fast food industry? Try to be specific.

1. How did the FDA attempt to increase the safety of food and prevent an outbreak of BSE in the US in August 1997?

2. What was wrong with the European Union's claim that BSE had not been detected in its cattle? What resulted once they corrected this fallacy?
3. After the FDA's new feed guidelines were passed, the federal government investigated feed mills and rendering plants. What did they find?
4. Why is McDonald's reaction toward government efforts at increasing food and worker safety regulations important?
5. Why did McDonalds come under fire for its French fries?
6. Describe customer demand for fast food change in 2000.
7. What factors have forced McDonald's to reconsider its "imperial strategy" and focus more on domestic operations?
8. How do Texas' workers compensation laws differ from those in the other 49 states?
9. What choice are IBP workers in Texas faced with when they are injured?
10. Who purchased IBP recently? What effect might that purchase have on line speeds and the pressure to increase production?

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