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Record W2017052974 · doi:10.2752/155280105778055380

“The Right Thing to Do”

2005· article· en· W2017052974 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Sutton Stokes

Bibliographic record

VenueFood Culture & Society · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicLivestock Management and Performance Improvement
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiberian dollarAgribusinessProduct (mathematics)ConscienceAdvertisingBusinessCommerceMarketingLawPolitical scienceHistoryAgriculture

Abstract

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Quaker Oats advertising campaigns have long aimed not only at the stomach, but the conscience: “Think you don't have time for a hot breakfast?” asks one. “Think again.” The implication is clear: there is something especially wholesome and nourishing about a piping-hot bowl of oatmeal, and the smiling man in eighteenth century garb offers a product that makes it easy to do what another Quaker ad calls “the right thing to do.” But how can we be sure? What makes food “right”—health effects alone, or ethical/moral considerations about the business of getting that food from the farm to the grocery store?This paper rubs the sleep out of its eyes and takes a closer look at what's in the steaming bowl on the breakfast table. It turns out that a dollar spent on Quaker oatmeal is a dollar in PepsiCo's bank account, and that part of that dollar goes to one of the world's largest suppliers of beef cattle. Meanwhile, it's no coincidence that the suicide rate is climbing among the farmers of the Canadian Great Plains … In the increasingly globalized agribusiness industry, think there's any such thing as a “safe” food? Think again.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.047
Threshold uncertainty score0.156

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.010
Scholarly communication0.0050.006
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0470.027

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2005
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