Major claim: Food production should be reformed to avoid nightmarish industrial atrocities.
Supporting claim 1: Food production is currently putting harmful foods to the world and nobody is hearing about because our minds are being corrupted.
-Talk about the meat factories
-The amount of "stress" level towards the animals
-The government trying to hide everything
-Death of the 2 year-old boy
-Abuse of the farmers
Supporting claim 2: Food production can be changed by getting better insight on our food.
-Take about alternatives of not using the "normal" food ways
-Give example from the book Omnivore's Dilemma
-Being concious of what you eat
-Spread the world to other people
-Do the unthinkable
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Hw#11-Final Food Project 1
For a final food project i decided to change my supermarket habits when i went shopping. When i went food shopping with my mom, i told her to buy fish instead of meat because of all the horrible things i saw in the movie and what i read in the book. Walking around the supermarket i paid more attention to the labels also and instead of getting ham i decided to get turkey. I decided to become a vegetartain for a day or two days to see how it feel and try something new. At first i was scared because i was so used to eating meat but i thought "hey it won't be that bad."
For the first day i had a tuna sandwich with water and a salad with onions and tomatoes with dressing that my mom made. While i was eating my dinner, i was happy that the fact it did not involve meat and that i could eat something without feeling gulilty for the animals that were slaughtered. Unfortunetly by the second day it all changed. My mom did not cook that night and she ended up buying McDonalds. Thinking about it was digusted but at the same time i wasn't going to starve myself. I decided to get two snack wraps and fries.
When i was on my second snack wrap i was looking at the lettuce and it looked kind of old. I spit it out and threw the rest of my food out. Then i wondered this is why i decided to stop eating it in the first place. It's hard changing your diet because lots of times you still have those cravings. I feel like i can accomplish changing my diet, just have to keep that motive in my head. Before i would never think about "i should stop eating meat" but after everything in this unit, it has definetly changed my mind.
I feel like it's important to be aware what is in your food. For example, my food looked old and i didn't even notice because i was so hungry. We never take the time out to look and even be notified. "Everything is not what it seems" just like our food we don't see all the bad things that have our food has been altered into. It's not real food the food is fake.
For the first day i had a tuna sandwich with water and a salad with onions and tomatoes with dressing that my mom made. While i was eating my dinner, i was happy that the fact it did not involve meat and that i could eat something without feeling gulilty for the animals that were slaughtered. Unfortunetly by the second day it all changed. My mom did not cook that night and she ended up buying McDonalds. Thinking about it was digusted but at the same time i wasn't going to starve myself. I decided to get two snack wraps and fries.
When i was on my second snack wrap i was looking at the lettuce and it looked kind of old. I spit it out and threw the rest of my food out. Then i wondered this is why i decided to stop eating it in the first place. It's hard changing your diet because lots of times you still have those cravings. I feel like i can accomplish changing my diet, just have to keep that motive in my head. Before i would never think about "i should stop eating meat" but after everything in this unit, it has definetly changed my mind.
I feel like it's important to be aware what is in your food. For example, my food looked old and i didn't even notice because i was so hungry. We never take the time out to look and even be notified. "Everything is not what it seems" just like our food we don't see all the bad things that have our food has been altered into. It's not real food the food is fake.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Hw#10-Food, Inc. Response
People should know where their food is coming from and especially what is in the food. There is so much cruelty towards the animals in the industrial farming and the some of the meat they aren't we are eating is not real"food" but simply small molecules being broken up in pieces. Farmers get treated so poorly and do not get enough credit for what they do while these big arigculture companies get all this money for making us unhealthy. In order for us to change for the better, we need to be smarter with our food choices, pay attention to labels and stand up for our food.
Compared to the book, i was able to better visualize the process of the animals and what really happens behind closed doors of the food industry especially the politics and the government side of things. I liked how i was able to see people's different point of views and how they felt on the food industry. In the book i was able to see Michael Pollan view and his journey through the food industry and the ideas he felt. Also the different techniques that he used along the way which i found very interesting.
After watching the movie it made me think twice about my food. Also reading the book and seeing the movie i have decide to maybe try and become a vegetarian. I think that the way they treat the animals are horrible and digusting and i wouldn't want somebody to put that "stress" on me. Today when i actually went food shopping i was paying close attention to the labels on the foods that my mom was getting and thought do they really mean what they are saying? Are they sure they included every single detail of what is IN this product? I just feel overall its open me up to other ideas and views that i've never thought before. I once said i would never stop eating meat maybe that day will change maybe not even just meat just eating better to maintain being healthy.
Compared to the book, i was able to better visualize the process of the animals and what really happens behind closed doors of the food industry especially the politics and the government side of things. I liked how i was able to see people's different point of views and how they felt on the food industry. In the book i was able to see Michael Pollan view and his journey through the food industry and the ideas he felt. Also the different techniques that he used along the way which i found very interesting.
After watching the movie it made me think twice about my food. Also reading the book and seeing the movie i have decide to maybe try and become a vegetarian. I think that the way they treat the animals are horrible and digusting and i wouldn't want somebody to put that "stress" on me. Today when i actually went food shopping i was paying close attention to the labels on the foods that my mom was getting and thought do they really mean what they are saying? Are they sure they included every single detail of what is IN this product? I just feel overall its open me up to other ideas and views that i've never thought before. I once said i would never stop eating meat maybe that day will change maybe not even just meat just eating better to maintain being healthy.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Hw#7D
Chapter#17-My Grass-Fed Meal:A Week's Pay
Precis
I decided to cook a nice meal for my close friends of mine. I made chicken, corn, and chocolate souffle which turned out to be very delicious. The chicken did taste better than supermarket chicken much healthier and so was the corn. The eggs that i used for the souffle was like magic just so it was stiff and how orange it was. Everybody enjoyed the food i made and so was i.
Gems
On page 200 what stood out was how it said "when chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens too" i think that is true if you liet chickens do what they want letting them live freely they will taste better when you eat them. Instead of keeping them caged up all dirty your chicken taste dirty and unhealthy (well we don't know that) but still. I like the fact that the narrator felt good about him making all this food and that it was so healthy even if it was lots of money and time worth spend. Moving a step forward to living a better life.
Thoughts/Questions
Reading about the chicken and dessert he made, made me actually kind of hungry because it sounded so good and the fact that he grew it himself was cool. I wonder if it would be possible to grow farms like the Polyface in New York State, i think that it is a good idea. The way he talked about the egg, i was like "wow" i didn't know when you crack an egg that its actually suppose to stay still. Usually when i crack my eggs it's yellow and slides all over the place. It's crazy how little things like that make a difference to the way your food taste.
Chapter#18-The Forest:Survivor Food
Precis
I decided to do another search for my food which was hunting, it reminded me of my times with my mother looking for clams and mushrooms. I learned which ones to eat. I hear about this guy named Angelo who was a hunter himself and loved to cook, he would be perfect to help me out. I would soon begin my hunting skills with Angelo and learn how to pick and shoot.
Gems
On page 208, it said "we cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun", i thought that was interesting because like the narrator said since i don't know how to use a gun or hunt or kill does that make him or anybody else less of a man? In a male's perpective i think that they should because that is what an all-american boy is supposed to have or so it says.
Thoughts/Questions
When i think of hunting, i think that it is kind of nasty because i guess what i see movies from people killing animals. I wonder if hunting is actually healthier than polyface because we don't actually watch the animals and have a farm, so does it make it better or worse? I never really thought about hunting myself, if it so much better people nowadays should learn how to do it, so that we can eat better.
Chapter#19-Eating Animals:The Meat Eater's Dilemma
Precis
Animals suffer just like humans but why should they be discriminated also. I decided to try out being a vegetarian it was not easy for me or anybody else. In the factory farms the animals have horrible conditions and nobody see what actually happens behind closed doors, just trying to make more money as possible. I agree that the way Joel Satlin raises his farm is particulary a good thing because the animals are to live happy and not suffer so when they do die they lived a happy life.
Gems
On page 227, the diagram stood out to me because it talked about basically how they were tricking the cows into killing them. Also it continued on the next page that when they stun the cows that not all of them die and they still killed them when they were alive which shows how much cruelty there is towards the animals and how much they don't care.
Thoughts/Questions
I agree with the narrator that Joel Satlin is the best solution because wouldn't you want the chicken to live a happy life with good conditons and which makes it happy food? No they just want to do what they want who cares how they feel and be cruel to them. Reading about how they have those stunner for the cows was kind of scary and how they are lifted off the ground but the cows cannot tell as well because they don't know what's going on. Where it said "McDonalds says it's ok if they have 5 percent error rate" i was like wow these people have no hearts at all.
Chapter#20-Hunting: A walk In The Woods
Précis
I thought hunting would be so exciting. I went hunting with Angelo on a friend's forest, the first time we went I didn't catch any pig but the second time I caught one it was a very big "prosciutto". At first when I caught the pig I was happy but then when I saw Angelo cutting it up I felt bad and a little remorse. After everything the pig was just food there wasn't nothing more to explain about it.
Gems
When the narrator was talking about him killing his first pig and being excited I thought that it was cool and interesting because i think that if I was in his postion I would feel the same.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that hunting is not that bad compared to how the animals get treated in the industrial factories because they live in worse conditons plus they get treated so cruel by workers. I was wondering if the pigs that they hunted where as santiarty as the pigs that Joel Saldin has raised?Do they hunt all the foods they eat or just meat?
Chapter#21- Gathering:The Fungi
Precis
My next adventure was to find edible mushrooms and Angelo was able to help me the ones i caught were called chanterelles. Mushrooms are atcually valled fungi and they help a lot with the earth and the life cycle. I took another trip hunting for morels, at first i didn't know what i was getting myself into but by the end i was so happy it felt so good like the first time i hunted the pig.
Gems
On page 254, where they were talking about four different fungi and how each of them do something essential to our life i thought that was kind of interesting. Because peronally when i think of fungi and mushroom, its a complete turn off for me and i never really knew they had an objectibve towards us.
Thoughts/Questions
I never really thought that hunting mushrooms was such a big deal as they make it seem in the book because most people don't eat it. Are the mushrooms actually much healthier than the industrial meat and other things that people eat? Honestly i would not eat mushrooms i don't think they do anything for me or have a purpose to making me healthier.
Chapter#22-The Perfect Meal
Precis
I decided to cook a prefect meal from all my hunting gathering for all the people who contributed and helped me with it. Thinking about the whole process i thought i would be unable to accomplish it but by the end of it all the meal was great and evrybody seemed to enjoyed which made me happy as well.
Gems
"It wasn't the cooking that made it perfect, but the connection we felt with the food, with the place we live and with each other" i thought that what he said is kind of powerful because lots of times when people eat food they want to feel that connection. How can you feel that though knowing the foods you are eating contain all these bad chemicals and unhealthy substances?
Thoughts/Questions
I thought that this last chapter was a very good way to sum up everything that happened in the book. Like the author said by tomorrow he would still go back to supermarket and get his reuglar food products because it would be so hard to maintain cooking like that. If the food industry didn't make it so hard and do all these bad things we wouldn't have to go out of our way to be doing the things we do to be healthy.
Precis
I decided to cook a nice meal for my close friends of mine. I made chicken, corn, and chocolate souffle which turned out to be very delicious. The chicken did taste better than supermarket chicken much healthier and so was the corn. The eggs that i used for the souffle was like magic just so it was stiff and how orange it was. Everybody enjoyed the food i made and so was i.
Gems
On page 200 what stood out was how it said "when chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens too" i think that is true if you liet chickens do what they want letting them live freely they will taste better when you eat them. Instead of keeping them caged up all dirty your chicken taste dirty and unhealthy (well we don't know that) but still. I like the fact that the narrator felt good about him making all this food and that it was so healthy even if it was lots of money and time worth spend. Moving a step forward to living a better life.
Thoughts/Questions
Reading about the chicken and dessert he made, made me actually kind of hungry because it sounded so good and the fact that he grew it himself was cool. I wonder if it would be possible to grow farms like the Polyface in New York State, i think that it is a good idea. The way he talked about the egg, i was like "wow" i didn't know when you crack an egg that its actually suppose to stay still. Usually when i crack my eggs it's yellow and slides all over the place. It's crazy how little things like that make a difference to the way your food taste.
Chapter#18-The Forest:Survivor Food
Precis
I decided to do another search for my food which was hunting, it reminded me of my times with my mother looking for clams and mushrooms. I learned which ones to eat. I hear about this guy named Angelo who was a hunter himself and loved to cook, he would be perfect to help me out. I would soon begin my hunting skills with Angelo and learn how to pick and shoot.
Gems
On page 208, it said "we cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun", i thought that was interesting because like the narrator said since i don't know how to use a gun or hunt or kill does that make him or anybody else less of a man? In a male's perpective i think that they should because that is what an all-american boy is supposed to have or so it says.
Thoughts/Questions
When i think of hunting, i think that it is kind of nasty because i guess what i see movies from people killing animals. I wonder if hunting is actually healthier than polyface because we don't actually watch the animals and have a farm, so does it make it better or worse? I never really thought about hunting myself, if it so much better people nowadays should learn how to do it, so that we can eat better.
Chapter#19-Eating Animals:The Meat Eater's Dilemma
Precis
Animals suffer just like humans but why should they be discriminated also. I decided to try out being a vegetarian it was not easy for me or anybody else. In the factory farms the animals have horrible conditions and nobody see what actually happens behind closed doors, just trying to make more money as possible. I agree that the way Joel Satlin raises his farm is particulary a good thing because the animals are to live happy and not suffer so when they do die they lived a happy life.
Gems
On page 227, the diagram stood out to me because it talked about basically how they were tricking the cows into killing them. Also it continued on the next page that when they stun the cows that not all of them die and they still killed them when they were alive which shows how much cruelty there is towards the animals and how much they don't care.
Thoughts/Questions
I agree with the narrator that Joel Satlin is the best solution because wouldn't you want the chicken to live a happy life with good conditons and which makes it happy food? No they just want to do what they want who cares how they feel and be cruel to them. Reading about how they have those stunner for the cows was kind of scary and how they are lifted off the ground but the cows cannot tell as well because they don't know what's going on. Where it said "McDonalds says it's ok if they have 5 percent error rate" i was like wow these people have no hearts at all.
Chapter#20-Hunting: A walk In The Woods
Précis
I thought hunting would be so exciting. I went hunting with Angelo on a friend's forest, the first time we went I didn't catch any pig but the second time I caught one it was a very big "prosciutto". At first when I caught the pig I was happy but then when I saw Angelo cutting it up I felt bad and a little remorse. After everything the pig was just food there wasn't nothing more to explain about it.
Gems
When the narrator was talking about him killing his first pig and being excited I thought that it was cool and interesting because i think that if I was in his postion I would feel the same.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that hunting is not that bad compared to how the animals get treated in the industrial factories because they live in worse conditons plus they get treated so cruel by workers. I was wondering if the pigs that they hunted where as santiarty as the pigs that Joel Saldin has raised?Do they hunt all the foods they eat or just meat?
Chapter#21- Gathering:The Fungi
Precis
My next adventure was to find edible mushrooms and Angelo was able to help me the ones i caught were called chanterelles. Mushrooms are atcually valled fungi and they help a lot with the earth and the life cycle. I took another trip hunting for morels, at first i didn't know what i was getting myself into but by the end i was so happy it felt so good like the first time i hunted the pig.
Gems
On page 254, where they were talking about four different fungi and how each of them do something essential to our life i thought that was kind of interesting. Because peronally when i think of fungi and mushroom, its a complete turn off for me and i never really knew they had an objectibve towards us.
Thoughts/Questions
I never really thought that hunting mushrooms was such a big deal as they make it seem in the book because most people don't eat it. Are the mushrooms actually much healthier than the industrial meat and other things that people eat? Honestly i would not eat mushrooms i don't think they do anything for me or have a purpose to making me healthier.
Chapter#22-The Perfect Meal
Precis
I decided to cook a prefect meal from all my hunting gathering for all the people who contributed and helped me with it. Thinking about the whole process i thought i would be unable to accomplish it but by the end of it all the meal was great and evrybody seemed to enjoyed which made me happy as well.
Gems
"It wasn't the cooking that made it perfect, but the connection we felt with the food, with the place we live and with each other" i thought that what he said is kind of powerful because lots of times when people eat food they want to feel that connection. How can you feel that though knowing the foods you are eating contain all these bad chemicals and unhealthy substances?
Thoughts/Questions
I thought that this last chapter was a very good way to sum up everything that happened in the book. Like the author said by tomorrow he would still go back to supermarket and get his reuglar food products because it would be so hard to maintain cooking like that. If the food industry didn't make it so hard and do all these bad things we wouldn't have to go out of our way to be doing the things we do to be healthy.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Hw#9-Freakonomics Response
While watching the film they used a lot of surveys and what statistics have been shown with people in everyday life. One example was when they talked about different black and white names and to see if that would their determine their future and who they are as person. They randomly asked people on the street and had two different opinions by a black man and an indian man who both had different views on it. The black man agreed that it the name doesn't define who they are as a person just by where they grew up at and how they were raised like the girl Tempris. On the other hand the indian guy opposed the idea. Another example was when a school is Chicago decided if paying kids $50 dollars for getting above D's would make them do better in their classes. In some cases it was true but in most of them it was not. The black kid was actually improving in his grades but the white kid would improve then go back and forth to failing showing his really did not care about his grades because he didn't like school. Paying students can't help do better they are just going to do waht they want to do living in the present not the future.
I think that Freakonomics does serve as inspiration good example to our attempt to explore the "hidden-in-plain-sight" weirdness of dominant social practices because it shows how people react to a little rewards such as the $50 dollars for good grades and how the creator paid the girl with m&ms so she would go to bathroom not only are teens smart enough to get what they want but so are little kids. If you wnt somebody to do something most of time they want to be given something special or rewarded for their accomplishment. Looking at the film it showed the insights of other people and what they think. How to get from A to B. Relating back to the food unit it would be interesting if people where given money to eat healthier or be rewarded to eat buy the neccesity they need in order to eat right would is really work or will it fail? Only time will tell.
I think that Freakonomics does serve as inspiration good example to our attempt to explore the "hidden-in-plain-sight" weirdness of dominant social practices because it shows how people react to a little rewards such as the $50 dollars for good grades and how the creator paid the girl with m&ms so she would go to bathroom not only are teens smart enough to get what they want but so are little kids. If you wnt somebody to do something most of time they want to be given something special or rewarded for their accomplishment. Looking at the film it showed the insights of other people and what they think. How to get from A to B. Relating back to the food unit it would be interesting if people where given money to eat healthier or be rewarded to eat buy the neccesity they need in order to eat right would is really work or will it fail? Only time will tell.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Hw#7C
Chapter#11-More Big Organic:Meet Rosie, The Free-Range Chicken
Precis
I visited the "rosie farm" and found out a lot of how the "organic way" chickens were made. Even though they are proven to me more organic they are not much different to how non-organic chicken is made. Organic food is not cheap but it does provide you to be more healthy than other food that people eat.
Gems
When i was reading i thought it was interesting how all the chickens were kept in a pens and how they were not allowed to go outside once they hit a certain age which by then they didn't even feel like going outside because they were used to being trapped for so long.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that people should not have to spend so much money on buying "better foods" in order to make them healthy. I think that is unfair on our part. People want us to be healthy and not obese but they want to make food so expensive in that case make the food a decent amount of cash. When i read about how the chicken were raised they make it seem likes it's any better they are overcrowded and they get fed almost the same things as the other chickens.
Chapter#12-Polyface:Green Acres
Precis
I decided to polyface farm and boy was my work cut out for me. Being on his farm the way he did things were very naturally and nothing like the machinery and industrial the way today agriculutral companies were doing it. The way Joel Satatin grew his farm was with natural habit and not cold-hearted.
Gems
"Polyface farm raises chicken, beef, turkeys, eggs, rabbits, and pigs, plus tomatoes, sweet corn, grapes, and berries. They do all this on 100 acres of pasture mixed in with another 450 acres of forest" i thought that it was cool how he raised all this things and did not come about it in the wrong way. Also how he mentioned he was a grass farmer which is like how? when you raise all these thing but the grass is what really helps this whole process.
Thoughts/Questions
From reading the book so far, this was probably my favorite because it didn't discuss they ugly side of what is in my food but showing the postive side of raising your own healthy organic food with no bad chemicals. I think that if we had more farms like Joe that would be in better shape in food or come across it with wider arms but since the money makes the world go round it's just eat what's there and die.
Chapter#13-Grass:Monday
Precis
When it comes to grass you don't really think about it, looking at Polyface grass i learned about if from different angles not all the grasses where the same they were very unique. Joel didn't let the cows take more than one bite to allow them to grow so he would move them which would not only be healthy for them but more organic. Joel has come a long way from his father's being and is very proud of his accomplishments.
Gems
On page 152, i thought that the different grasses where interesting and show kind of what their jobs is and how different they were from each other. I liked the fact that cows no the dfference between two different grasses when we don't like it said on page 151 "These two plants are as different to her as vanilla ice cream is frm cauliflower. The cow opens her meaty wet lips, curls her sandpaper tongue around the bunched clover like a fat rop, and rips the mouthful of tender leaves from its crown" so vivid.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that it's cool how Joel the farmer is so passionate about what he does and how is particular about his food and him beinig a grass farmer. When we think of grass we don't think all the things it can do with animals and the ground and with the food that we eat but it has to do with everything we just don't know it because we are not taught about it.
Chapter#14-The Animals:Tuesday
Precis
Chickens are not just to be eaten but they help alot. Joel moves the chickens all the time just like the cows so their manure fertilizes the grass and supplies nitrogen. Joel has a eggmobile to transport eggs and clean up messes. Not only does he take care of them but he lets them be free and do what they like letting them explore their natural habitat unlike industrial factories. Each animal has their own job in what they do such as the pigs, rabbits, turkeys, and chickens. The Salatins farming is not all easy work but they do it with great pleasure and eat healthy because they want not to make more money or have more outputs just because that is their natural habitat.
Gems
I thought that it was inpressive how much progress and hardwork they did in how much they had produced. "30,000 dozen eggs, 10,000 brolers, 800 stewing hens, 50 beef cattle, 125 hogs, 1,000 turkeys, and 500 rabbits". I wish i could do something like that and no only was this so much but it was done in the "correct way".
Thoughts/Questions
How long does this really take, the whole process? I never thought that trees can help us so much with our foods with chickens, insects etc. The Salatins make these people look like amaeturs and do not what they doing. Is possible to change the industrial machinery like this?
Chapter#15-The Slaughterhouse:Wednesday Morning
Precis
Today was the day of slaughtering. I learned how to cut the chickens at the at veins and watch the blood pour out i was very timid but go used to it, i then watched them take aprt the insides. Each chicken was killed, scalded, plucked and gutted. People came to pick up their chicken while i was cleaning up. The remains of the chicken and blood was dumped and made into compost which would help with grass.
Gems
I think that it's cool how instead of throwing out all the remains of the chickens unlike the industrial who would something like that, they take everything and reuse it to make compost and grass. I never really thought of it like that. They are being green with every situation they have.
Thoughts/Questions
I never really thought that there was a technique to killing a chicken. With them they are warm-hearted unlike others who are cold-hearted. Its the way they go about the slaughting and farming that makes it different compared to others and makes it better.
Chapter#16-The Market:Greeting From The Non-Bar Code People
Precis
Polyface food makes people feel more connected to their food in a way that local supermarkets cannot. People nowadays willing to pay for something more like technology but not better foods. Our bar codes tell us nothing where our food comes from shouldn't we know as they do in Denmark? The Polyface transport a lot of food places showing people how great their food is and how the seasonal food is best eaten during what time.
Gems
I thought that it was fasinating how the people like Joel want to make people out in the world see what food were are eating and try to make a positive view to eat right and have local foods instead of buying food out of season and taking days to get shipped.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that Polyface is right about what they are saying about the food we are eating. It's like we spend all this oney on ipods and new phones but we can spare antoher extra dollar to eat the right foods. If i had the proper money i would convert to the ideas on what they are saying but for right now i can't.
Precis
I visited the "rosie farm" and found out a lot of how the "organic way" chickens were made. Even though they are proven to me more organic they are not much different to how non-organic chicken is made. Organic food is not cheap but it does provide you to be more healthy than other food that people eat.
Gems
When i was reading i thought it was interesting how all the chickens were kept in a pens and how they were not allowed to go outside once they hit a certain age which by then they didn't even feel like going outside because they were used to being trapped for so long.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that people should not have to spend so much money on buying "better foods" in order to make them healthy. I think that is unfair on our part. People want us to be healthy and not obese but they want to make food so expensive in that case make the food a decent amount of cash. When i read about how the chicken were raised they make it seem likes it's any better they are overcrowded and they get fed almost the same things as the other chickens.
Chapter#12-Polyface:Green Acres
Precis
I decided to polyface farm and boy was my work cut out for me. Being on his farm the way he did things were very naturally and nothing like the machinery and industrial the way today agriculutral companies were doing it. The way Joel Satatin grew his farm was with natural habit and not cold-hearted.
Gems
"Polyface farm raises chicken, beef, turkeys, eggs, rabbits, and pigs, plus tomatoes, sweet corn, grapes, and berries. They do all this on 100 acres of pasture mixed in with another 450 acres of forest" i thought that it was cool how he raised all this things and did not come about it in the wrong way. Also how he mentioned he was a grass farmer which is like how? when you raise all these thing but the grass is what really helps this whole process.
Thoughts/Questions
From reading the book so far, this was probably my favorite because it didn't discuss they ugly side of what is in my food but showing the postive side of raising your own healthy organic food with no bad chemicals. I think that if we had more farms like Joe that would be in better shape in food or come across it with wider arms but since the money makes the world go round it's just eat what's there and die.
Chapter#13-Grass:Monday
Precis
When it comes to grass you don't really think about it, looking at Polyface grass i learned about if from different angles not all the grasses where the same they were very unique. Joel didn't let the cows take more than one bite to allow them to grow so he would move them which would not only be healthy for them but more organic. Joel has come a long way from his father's being and is very proud of his accomplishments.
Gems
On page 152, i thought that the different grasses where interesting and show kind of what their jobs is and how different they were from each other. I liked the fact that cows no the dfference between two different grasses when we don't like it said on page 151 "These two plants are as different to her as vanilla ice cream is frm cauliflower. The cow opens her meaty wet lips, curls her sandpaper tongue around the bunched clover like a fat rop, and rips the mouthful of tender leaves from its crown" so vivid.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that it's cool how Joel the farmer is so passionate about what he does and how is particular about his food and him beinig a grass farmer. When we think of grass we don't think all the things it can do with animals and the ground and with the food that we eat but it has to do with everything we just don't know it because we are not taught about it.
Chapter#14-The Animals:Tuesday
Precis
Chickens are not just to be eaten but they help alot. Joel moves the chickens all the time just like the cows so their manure fertilizes the grass and supplies nitrogen. Joel has a eggmobile to transport eggs and clean up messes. Not only does he take care of them but he lets them be free and do what they like letting them explore their natural habitat unlike industrial factories. Each animal has their own job in what they do such as the pigs, rabbits, turkeys, and chickens. The Salatins farming is not all easy work but they do it with great pleasure and eat healthy because they want not to make more money or have more outputs just because that is their natural habitat.
Gems
I thought that it was inpressive how much progress and hardwork they did in how much they had produced. "30,000 dozen eggs, 10,000 brolers, 800 stewing hens, 50 beef cattle, 125 hogs, 1,000 turkeys, and 500 rabbits". I wish i could do something like that and no only was this so much but it was done in the "correct way".
Thoughts/Questions
How long does this really take, the whole process? I never thought that trees can help us so much with our foods with chickens, insects etc. The Salatins make these people look like amaeturs and do not what they doing. Is possible to change the industrial machinery like this?
Chapter#15-The Slaughterhouse:Wednesday Morning
Precis
Today was the day of slaughtering. I learned how to cut the chickens at the at veins and watch the blood pour out i was very timid but go used to it, i then watched them take aprt the insides. Each chicken was killed, scalded, plucked and gutted. People came to pick up their chicken while i was cleaning up. The remains of the chicken and blood was dumped and made into compost which would help with grass.
Gems
I think that it's cool how instead of throwing out all the remains of the chickens unlike the industrial who would something like that, they take everything and reuse it to make compost and grass. I never really thought of it like that. They are being green with every situation they have.
Thoughts/Questions
I never really thought that there was a technique to killing a chicken. With them they are warm-hearted unlike others who are cold-hearted. Its the way they go about the slaughting and farming that makes it different compared to others and makes it better.
Chapter#16-The Market:Greeting From The Non-Bar Code People
Precis
Polyface food makes people feel more connected to their food in a way that local supermarkets cannot. People nowadays willing to pay for something more like technology but not better foods. Our bar codes tell us nothing where our food comes from shouldn't we know as they do in Denmark? The Polyface transport a lot of food places showing people how great their food is and how the seasonal food is best eaten during what time.
Gems
I thought that it was fasinating how the people like Joel want to make people out in the world see what food were are eating and try to make a positive view to eat right and have local foods instead of buying food out of season and taking days to get shipped.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that Polyface is right about what they are saying about the food we are eating. It's like we spend all this oney on ipods and new phones but we can spare antoher extra dollar to eat the right foods. If i had the proper money i would convert to the ideas on what they are saying but for right now i can't.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Hw#8-Growing Our Own Food
I was unable to grow my own sprout due to technical difficulties but looking at everybody's elses sprout it didn't seem like a lot of work but it was same thing everyday (go water it and put it on the shelf to leave it to grow). I think me growing my own plant is weird because i'm not a farmer and i would just regularly buy my food at the supermarket. If i was to grow my own food i think they would be spoiled or become rotten because i'm not used to it but if i was learned earlier i would be more used to it. Lots of people who were planting their sprout did not seem to happy to do the same routine everyday or very nonchalant about it. If we didn't have to do it then nobody would care.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Hw#7B
Chapter#6-Processed Food:Splitting The Kernel
Precis
We are humans eat a lot of corn directly and indirectly. I visited a mill in Iowa called a wet mill which is a huge system which breaks down the corn and breaks down the materials of it. Each part of the machine slowly breaks apat the corn into simple pieces. Cereal companies such as general mills are trying to create new inventions creating "fake food" called resistant starch.
Gems
A gem that i found was the picture on page 68 and 69 which shows what is made from corn. It breaks up what starches it is made from, the whole corn products,etc. I thought that was interesting because it shows that it does not only come from one product but from all these other things. Another thing was the how the dollar is broken up into who gets paid and where each of the money goes.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that the cereal companies creating the invention of resistant starch is kind of ridiculous and unfair to the buyers. Also how the farmers aren't getting paid enough getting more profit to other people other than the farmers making the corn.
Chapter#7-Fat Corn:Can You Eat More, Please? Part 2
Precis
It seems as the couple years that go by more and more food is being eaten. Many food companies have created a way for us consumers to buy more food than we need creating obesity and creating more problems for our health. Companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonalds create this thing to make food more supersized or bigger which makes the consumers less aware that they are eating less calories than buying two small meals.
Gems
On page 83, it said "One part of the government puts out food pyramids tellng you to eat more fruits and vegetables and fewer sweets. Meanwhile another part of the government s making it cheaper for you to eat healthy, then it makes sure that the cheapest calories in the supermarket are the unhealthiest. Talk about mixed messages!" I thought that this was very true because the government wants us to be healthy but they are giving us all the wrong foods and making money off of us.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that its unfair we as the people do not have a say with our foods and how the government makes all this money off of us. Do they eat the same foods we eat? If so, where does it comes from? I found it weird but true how we spend money on the bigger meals instead of the many little ones because we think its more calories.
Chapter#8-The Ominvore's Dilemma:Is That Food?
Precis
We as humans to need to eat a variety of things unlike herbivores and carnivores but as humans we have made it harder with ourselves with our choices in food. Today we do not know what to eat because we do not what is in our foods which is an omnivore dilemma. We have two different taste preferences sweet and bitter. We do not eat our food in the proper way and we listen to what the media has to say about everything.
Gems
"Food companies make more money if they cn get us to change our eating habits and buy their processed foods. They spend billions to create constant stream of these new foods and then spend billions more to get us to buy them." I always wonder just why spend so much money to break us down as consumers. Killing each other each day. I liked how it said "looking at food that way robs us of one of life's greatest pleasures. We should not only enjoy and appreciate our food, we should enjoy making it and eating it in the company of others."
Thoughts/Questions
After reading i never really thought as food in a way like that like not just what we were eating but how we come about it. Reading about the French and how they ate they ate their food i thought was kind of a "wow" factor or even in other countries but the way we were brought and how we use things as Americans we don't think that far.
Chapter#9-My Fast-Food Meal:Fast Food
Precis
I decided to go to McDoanlds and see the facts behind fast food. While eating my food i found put there was so much corn in all three items that i ate especially my son's "chicken nuggets". Everything took less than 20 minutes:ordering the food, making the food, and eating the food. We don't pay attention where any of this is coming from especially McDonalds.
Gems
I like how it said "after a few bites you forget what you're eating. It's not exactly food, but a kind of food substitue. So you eat moree and eat more quickly, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied, exactly, but simply, regettably, full" i never really thought about it like that when i was reading it but when i think about it now that is how it actually happens.
Thoughts/Questions
Talking about all this fast food and McDonalds makes me not wanna eat any at all just for the simple fact that i don't know what i am eating and what the author said was true that he couldn't taste the burger but the pickles, kecthup, and mustard which i find kind of digusting. It kind of makes my stomach turn and make me think twice should i really eat this food?
Chapter#10-Big Organic:Once Upon A Time
Precis
Even though organic food is "organic" they are also industralized too. Organic food started out in the late 1960's and later became a very big deal. Organic food is not all what it seems, they is alot of processed things. Some organic food processing actually damages the working fields.
Gems
"But it turns out that plowing the land over and over damages the soil almost as much as chemical weed killers do. It kills off the nitrogen into the air. Because of this damage, industrial organic farmers have to add a lot of nitrogen fertilizer to their fields." I thought that was interesting because just cause it organic does not mean it cannot hurt the enivornment no matter what good or bad food is made something bad comes with it. Its kind of contradicting.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that this chapter was good. I feel like have learned more of not only where my food comes from but where people believe "organic" food comes from which comes off as the better healthier food but then again you do not how its made or processed.
Precis
We are humans eat a lot of corn directly and indirectly. I visited a mill in Iowa called a wet mill which is a huge system which breaks down the corn and breaks down the materials of it. Each part of the machine slowly breaks apat the corn into simple pieces. Cereal companies such as general mills are trying to create new inventions creating "fake food" called resistant starch.
Gems
A gem that i found was the picture on page 68 and 69 which shows what is made from corn. It breaks up what starches it is made from, the whole corn products,etc. I thought that was interesting because it shows that it does not only come from one product but from all these other things. Another thing was the how the dollar is broken up into who gets paid and where each of the money goes.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that the cereal companies creating the invention of resistant starch is kind of ridiculous and unfair to the buyers. Also how the farmers aren't getting paid enough getting more profit to other people other than the farmers making the corn.
Chapter#7-Fat Corn:Can You Eat More, Please? Part 2
Precis
It seems as the couple years that go by more and more food is being eaten. Many food companies have created a way for us consumers to buy more food than we need creating obesity and creating more problems for our health. Companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonalds create this thing to make food more supersized or bigger which makes the consumers less aware that they are eating less calories than buying two small meals.
Gems
On page 83, it said "One part of the government puts out food pyramids tellng you to eat more fruits and vegetables and fewer sweets. Meanwhile another part of the government s making it cheaper for you to eat healthy, then it makes sure that the cheapest calories in the supermarket are the unhealthiest. Talk about mixed messages!" I thought that this was very true because the government wants us to be healthy but they are giving us all the wrong foods and making money off of us.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that its unfair we as the people do not have a say with our foods and how the government makes all this money off of us. Do they eat the same foods we eat? If so, where does it comes from? I found it weird but true how we spend money on the bigger meals instead of the many little ones because we think its more calories.
Chapter#8-The Ominvore's Dilemma:Is That Food?
Precis
We as humans to need to eat a variety of things unlike herbivores and carnivores but as humans we have made it harder with ourselves with our choices in food. Today we do not know what to eat because we do not what is in our foods which is an omnivore dilemma. We have two different taste preferences sweet and bitter. We do not eat our food in the proper way and we listen to what the media has to say about everything.
Gems
"Food companies make more money if they cn get us to change our eating habits and buy their processed foods. They spend billions to create constant stream of these new foods and then spend billions more to get us to buy them." I always wonder just why spend so much money to break us down as consumers. Killing each other each day. I liked how it said "looking at food that way robs us of one of life's greatest pleasures. We should not only enjoy and appreciate our food, we should enjoy making it and eating it in the company of others."
Thoughts/Questions
After reading i never really thought as food in a way like that like not just what we were eating but how we come about it. Reading about the French and how they ate they ate their food i thought was kind of a "wow" factor or even in other countries but the way we were brought and how we use things as Americans we don't think that far.
Chapter#9-My Fast-Food Meal:Fast Food
Precis
I decided to go to McDoanlds and see the facts behind fast food. While eating my food i found put there was so much corn in all three items that i ate especially my son's "chicken nuggets". Everything took less than 20 minutes:ordering the food, making the food, and eating the food. We don't pay attention where any of this is coming from especially McDonalds.
Gems
I like how it said "after a few bites you forget what you're eating. It's not exactly food, but a kind of food substitue. So you eat moree and eat more quickly, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied, exactly, but simply, regettably, full" i never really thought about it like that when i was reading it but when i think about it now that is how it actually happens.
Thoughts/Questions
Talking about all this fast food and McDonalds makes me not wanna eat any at all just for the simple fact that i don't know what i am eating and what the author said was true that he couldn't taste the burger but the pickles, kecthup, and mustard which i find kind of digusting. It kind of makes my stomach turn and make me think twice should i really eat this food?
Chapter#10-Big Organic:Once Upon A Time
Precis
Even though organic food is "organic" they are also industralized too. Organic food started out in the late 1960's and later became a very big deal. Organic food is not all what it seems, they is alot of processed things. Some organic food processing actually damages the working fields.
Gems
"But it turns out that plowing the land over and over damages the soil almost as much as chemical weed killers do. It kills off the nitrogen into the air. Because of this damage, industrial organic farmers have to add a lot of nitrogen fertilizer to their fields." I thought that was interesting because just cause it organic does not mean it cannot hurt the enivornment no matter what good or bad food is made something bad comes with it. Its kind of contradicting.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that this chapter was good. I feel like have learned more of not only where my food comes from but where people believe "organic" food comes from which comes off as the better healthier food but then again you do not how its made or processed.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Hw#7-Reading Response Monday
The Omnivore's Dilemma The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan
Chapter#1-How Corn Took Over America: A Field Of Corn
Precis
Corn is in lots of the everyday foods that we eat from soda to frozen dinners. Corn allows us not to feed ourselves but also that foods that we ate such as chickens, fish, and pigs. Corn all started with the Native Americans then later traveled all around the world. Not only does corn help us but we help corn also with growing and creating a new epidemic.
Gems
One thing tht stood out to me was when was in the introduction it said "The chemical is so toxic to the nervous system that no one is allowed in the field for five days after it is sprayed. After the harvest, the potatoes are stored for six months in a gigantic shed. Here the chemicals gradually fade until the potatoes are safe to eat." I found that to be very interesting how they put chemicals in our potatoes and we wait six months to eat it. It's kind of like we are eating something toxic.
Thoughts/Questions
From reading the first chapter i realized enjoyed learning how lots of the things we eat involves corn because i never realized that especially now looking at the labels and they saw things like "corn syrup" and all these diffcult names when it's just corn. I did not think corn had such an impact on our lives and how much it really helped us. Is it possible to replace all those things with corn with something and is corn really that good for you?
Chapter#2-The Farm:One Farmer,140 Eaters
Precis
I visited a farmer by the name of George Naylor, he farm consist of lots of corn and some soybeans. Many years ago, it was more such as fruits and vegetables but corn has become prominantley dominant in recent times. Corn has caused farmers to deleted themselves from the picture and have no kind of land to produce food. An average american farmer grows enough food for 140 people they don't know. Farmers and agribusiness companies have created "fake corn" to produce more corn which has cause so many farmers to drop out. There were once so many farms everywhere now you can barely find one.
Gems
Looking on page 26 and 27, i was really shocked by how much of the fruits people once grew are not there anymore. It crazy how people just make these chemicals and what-not(GMOs) and cuteverybodies farms out. Then on page 27 it shows how all around the U.S people had many farms and now there is barely. Next thing you know there won't be any farms at all. "A farm of corn and soybeans doesn't require nearly as much human labor as the old-fashioned farm full of different kinds of crops. Bigger tractors and machines, chemicals weed killers, and aritfical fertilizer made it easier for one farmer to handle more acres."
Thoughts/Questions
From reading the first two chapters i think that i do not know what us americans would do without corn. I think that farmers do not get enough credit for what they do for people to eat and should be appreciate more. When it comes GMO's i think that it's crazy at the same time kind of interesting how the agriculture business make all these new ideas on creating less and less work. It kind of reminds me of last year when we talked about the Digital Unit and how we create technology for is less stressful for a human being.
Chapter#3-From Farm to Factory: Turning Bombs Into Factory
Precis
Visiting the Naylors farm, i have learned what happens behind closed doors. Lots of farmers are putting nitrogen into farming an making corn and by doing that it creates a lot of energy burning fossile fuels. Nowadays they invest so much time using up energy than producing food calories. All of this nitrogren has just is hurting the enviroment making the agriculture business stronger and the farmers are poor.
Gems
Something that i found interesting was that it said "Buh what happens to eighty pounds of man-made nitrogen that Naylor's cron plants don't take up? Some of it evaporates into the air, where it creates acid rain. Someof it turns into nitrous oxide, a gas that increases global warming." I thought that it crazy how smething so small like changing corn and the genetics can turn into global warming making the world worse than it already is. Referring to this another "gem" i found was the nitrogen cycle and how each of the components travel everywhere not just the inside the soil.
Thoughts/Questions
Each time i read the book i find it more and more intriguing. I am getting a little more of the concept where my food comes especially corn. It seems like corn is at the ls the top of the list of money making and knocking out farmers and other vegetables and food out the way. I think that government is acutally killing us instead of making us stronger. They just want to make money so they can be rich and forget about everybody else which is selfish.
Chapter#4-The Grain Elevator:Food On The Ground
Precis
When i visited the grain elevator there was a lot of corn being unused. The grain of elevator that i saw was called "number 2 field corn" which is an excess amount of extra corn. They take the corn that is not being used and use it to feed animals who do not adapt to, fuel, exported, and high frutose corn syrup.
Gems
What stood out to me was how they had the diagram on how the number 2 field corn" was split up into which i found to be really bad. Also how they force the cows to eat corn when they do not eat that all. That's like making us eat rocks or something. It's worse for the animals.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that it kind of weird how corn is being used in everyway shape or form. I feel like the companies should make a whole new process of this or come with a different approach. It's like more money but hurting more things such as animals and the human body. Why?
Chapter#5-The Feedlot-Turning Corn into Meat:City of Cows
Precis
I bought a cow to see how it came from a farm into our stomach. Looking at the feedlot and how the #534 was getting treated made think a lot about eating beef. The cows were forced to eat corn which is not related to their diet. Giving them corn causes them to gain weight to make beef but at the same time make them ill.
Gems
What i found interesting was all the different diseases the cows and us humans can get from all this processing food like corn. It said "cattles with acidosis stop eating, pant, and drool, paw and scratch their bellies, and eat dirt. This can so weaken the animal that it can devlop diahrrea, ulcers, liver, disease, pneumonia, and feedlot polio." I thought how all things can also happen to us just because companies want to make poor decisions on how our food is taken care of.
Thoughts/Questions
SO far this chapter has really made me think twice about eating beef just for the simple fact on how the cows get treated in the feedlot and how they are forced to eat things not in the diet. Why force them to eat that when in the long run it's kind of killing us also.
Chapter#1-How Corn Took Over America: A Field Of Corn
Precis
Corn is in lots of the everyday foods that we eat from soda to frozen dinners. Corn allows us not to feed ourselves but also that foods that we ate such as chickens, fish, and pigs. Corn all started with the Native Americans then later traveled all around the world. Not only does corn help us but we help corn also with growing and creating a new epidemic.
Gems
One thing tht stood out to me was when was in the introduction it said "The chemical is so toxic to the nervous system that no one is allowed in the field for five days after it is sprayed. After the harvest, the potatoes are stored for six months in a gigantic shed. Here the chemicals gradually fade until the potatoes are safe to eat." I found that to be very interesting how they put chemicals in our potatoes and we wait six months to eat it. It's kind of like we are eating something toxic.
Thoughts/Questions
From reading the first chapter i realized enjoyed learning how lots of the things we eat involves corn because i never realized that especially now looking at the labels and they saw things like "corn syrup" and all these diffcult names when it's just corn. I did not think corn had such an impact on our lives and how much it really helped us. Is it possible to replace all those things with corn with something and is corn really that good for you?
Chapter#2-The Farm:One Farmer,140 Eaters
Precis
I visited a farmer by the name of George Naylor, he farm consist of lots of corn and some soybeans. Many years ago, it was more such as fruits and vegetables but corn has become prominantley dominant in recent times. Corn has caused farmers to deleted themselves from the picture and have no kind of land to produce food. An average american farmer grows enough food for 140 people they don't know. Farmers and agribusiness companies have created "fake corn" to produce more corn which has cause so many farmers to drop out. There were once so many farms everywhere now you can barely find one.
Gems
Looking on page 26 and 27, i was really shocked by how much of the fruits people once grew are not there anymore. It crazy how people just make these chemicals and what-not(GMOs) and cuteverybodies farms out. Then on page 27 it shows how all around the U.S people had many farms and now there is barely. Next thing you know there won't be any farms at all. "A farm of corn and soybeans doesn't require nearly as much human labor as the old-fashioned farm full of different kinds of crops. Bigger tractors and machines, chemicals weed killers, and aritfical fertilizer made it easier for one farmer to handle more acres."
Thoughts/Questions
From reading the first two chapters i think that i do not know what us americans would do without corn. I think that farmers do not get enough credit for what they do for people to eat and should be appreciate more. When it comes GMO's i think that it's crazy at the same time kind of interesting how the agriculture business make all these new ideas on creating less and less work. It kind of reminds me of last year when we talked about the Digital Unit and how we create technology for is less stressful for a human being.
Chapter#3-From Farm to Factory: Turning Bombs Into Factory
Precis
Visiting the Naylors farm, i have learned what happens behind closed doors. Lots of farmers are putting nitrogen into farming an making corn and by doing that it creates a lot of energy burning fossile fuels. Nowadays they invest so much time using up energy than producing food calories. All of this nitrogren has just is hurting the enviroment making the agriculture business stronger and the farmers are poor.
Gems
Something that i found interesting was that it said "Buh what happens to eighty pounds of man-made nitrogen that Naylor's cron plants don't take up? Some of it evaporates into the air, where it creates acid rain. Someof it turns into nitrous oxide, a gas that increases global warming." I thought that it crazy how smething so small like changing corn and the genetics can turn into global warming making the world worse than it already is. Referring to this another "gem" i found was the nitrogen cycle and how each of the components travel everywhere not just the inside the soil.
Thoughts/Questions
Each time i read the book i find it more and more intriguing. I am getting a little more of the concept where my food comes especially corn. It seems like corn is at the ls the top of the list of money making and knocking out farmers and other vegetables and food out the way. I think that government is acutally killing us instead of making us stronger. They just want to make money so they can be rich and forget about everybody else which is selfish.
Chapter#4-The Grain Elevator:Food On The Ground
Precis
When i visited the grain elevator there was a lot of corn being unused. The grain of elevator that i saw was called "number 2 field corn" which is an excess amount of extra corn. They take the corn that is not being used and use it to feed animals who do not adapt to, fuel, exported, and high frutose corn syrup.
Gems
What stood out to me was how they had the diagram on how the number 2 field corn" was split up into which i found to be really bad. Also how they force the cows to eat corn when they do not eat that all. That's like making us eat rocks or something. It's worse for the animals.
Thoughts/Questions
I think that it kind of weird how corn is being used in everyway shape or form. I feel like the companies should make a whole new process of this or come with a different approach. It's like more money but hurting more things such as animals and the human body. Why?
Chapter#5-The Feedlot-Turning Corn into Meat:City of Cows
Precis
I bought a cow to see how it came from a farm into our stomach. Looking at the feedlot and how the #534 was getting treated made think a lot about eating beef. The cows were forced to eat corn which is not related to their diet. Giving them corn causes them to gain weight to make beef but at the same time make them ill.
Gems
What i found interesting was all the different diseases the cows and us humans can get from all this processing food like corn. It said "cattles with acidosis stop eating, pant, and drool, paw and scratch their bellies, and eat dirt. This can so weaken the animal that it can devlop diahrrea, ulcers, liver, disease, pneumonia, and feedlot polio." I thought how all things can also happen to us just because companies want to make poor decisions on how our food is taken care of.
Thoughts/Questions
SO far this chapter has really made me think twice about eating beef just for the simple fact on how the cows get treated in the feedlot and how they are forced to eat things not in the diet. Why force them to eat that when in the long run it's kind of killing us also.
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