The Omnivore's Dilemma

I feel as if I have many memorable experiences from Exploris. One of them is when I went to Hope Elementary. Whenever we went to Hope Elementary School, we were able to work with the little children to teach them the science they were supposed to learn during the year. The experience helped me to learn how to plan ahead. Another example is when I went on the Outward Bound trip. The trip helped me to start to break down the walls I’ve placed around my trust. It was important for me to trust my…

This is wrong. Machinery has overpowered the current state of agriculture, and in the case of the meat industry especially we have seen technology’s potential to harm rather than help. While already a vegetarian, reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma allowed me to reexamine and thus reinforce my rationale for those choices: I have been a vegetarian since birth, so often times that choice is a passive one. There is a surplus of healthy options available for me without much active effort…

Which Food Chain is Best to Feed America? Delicious. McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, and more. All of these fast food restaurants are all examples of the Industrial Food Chain. How often do you have fast food? Probably very often, because these restaurant’s foods taste amazing. Not only does the industrial food chain supply food to fast food restaurants, the food chain also supplies food to most of the super markets around America. The Industrial food chain is the best food chain to feed…

Factory Farms: and their effect on the world “If you grew as fast as a chicken, you'd weigh 349 pounds at age 2” (Garces, Factory Farmed Animals Are Horrifically Mistreated). Our food is mainly coming from the animals that are grown on these farms. On factory farms many types of animals, like chickens, pigs, and cows, are being raised and then they are killed to make food. Then, they will go through processing, go to store shelves, and then end up on your dinner table. Although a factory farm…

Today, Obesity is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Schools all over America are serving greasy, sugary, and unhealthy lunches to children which is causing kids to be overweight, and have health problems at a young age. By making school lunches healthier, childhood obesity will decrease, and will teach kids healthy food choices. The United States of America is the ninth fattest country, 33.9 percent of people being overweight. Schools should provide healthier food for…

Buying foods from local sustainable farms is better for the environment. For example, Michael Pollan talks about how Polyface “grasslands, store most of the carbon in their roots and when those roots die off and become humus, the carbon becomes part of the soil” (181). This shows that local sustainable farming helps remove carbon from the atmosphere and helps create new soil. Another example that Pollan states are that local sustainable foods are shipped within 150 miles from Polyface farm (212)…

Compare and Contrast Essay Animals forced into cages with little room to move for nearly their entire lives is finally being questioned by the public. The relationship between your local community and food has brought attention to animal rights. “They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture” (The Pleasures Of Eating 20). Both The Pleasures Of Eating by Wendell Berry and An Animal’s Place by Michael Pollan discuss…

Currently, there is a debate happening about, how animals are treated in factory farming.In “Omnivore’s Dilemma” it discusses what the animals go through, how they are raised, and what they eat. Animals shouldn’t be treated the way they are.I know that are just animals and we eat them but take the pets you got at home would you miss treat them. Would you just treat them any kind of way because they are just animals? Well I say that Animal cruelty is a serious problem and it needs to come to a…

Health and nutrition have been an essential part of life since the beginning of time, but more recently these topics are shared and examined more frequently than ever, especially in America. In Michael Pollan’s article “Our National Eating Disorder,” Claudia Kalb’s “Food News Blues,” and Karin Kratina’s “The Right Thing to Do?” it is made apparent that how we eat may be just as important as what we eat. These three authors make very valid points about American’s obsession with health fads and…

For my final site visit I chose to examine my own kitchen. Just one day in my kitchen and I start to realize that we have a definite dilemma in our family. It seems to me that a family should eat the same foods especially when it comes to dinner time, but unfortunately my family does not eat the same foods. Since my paper is due in the next few days and I spent all day preparing food in my kitchen I thought today December 13, 2014 was a perfect example of food production in the 21st Century…