Feedlots

Feedlots are plot of ground that is often located near a stockyard. This is where livestock are gathered to be fattened up for market.  The grain given to these animals is aided by anabolic steroids that is implanted into the animals ears. (150, schlossers' Fast Food Nation). This is the start of prodction. Production starts on the farm with the farmers or the growers. The people who take these positions are placed under high and strict rules, on how to raise thier animals inorder for them to be able to sell them to the companies. What modifying what these animals eat the food that we know as a hamburger is later modified as well. Once a chemical is taken out of its form it cannot go back to its original form. This is known as food engineering, (111).

Feedlot production is about control and demand. A farmer named Monfort, who later became the Ken Monfort, the owner of many slaughter houses. He would control his sales and timing of livestock by feeding the cattle year round a new type of food. The grain, instead of grass. The corporations control how the food is raised and they put it on the market. If animals are not fat enough, and has not been given the anabolic steroids thenthey are not worthy of profit.

Feedlots make the selling possible. The farmers can grow they animals the way the corporations want them to.