Beets in the hood
“Thanks to former NBA draft pick Will Allen a couple of
American cities are experiencing a produce renaissance.” How would this impact
people who had never really had a minor abundance of fresh produce? Among the
people Will is helping would be those who hadn’t really purchased any food that
wasn’t essentially store bought, which, after some thought, I found surprising.
In suburban areas it may not seem that surprising, but in reality it’s just
astonishing that after years and years of mass producing chemically altered, or
protected foods, we have gone so far as to alienate ourselves from anything “fresh.”
Michael pollan fixes
dinner
“Lowa came close to electing a women organic farmer as its
agricultural secretary until the Lowa farm bureau came after her.” This really
shows some of what agricultural companies will do to stay secure in their
hermit hole. That’s just the problem, is that they are so transfixed with what
makes the most profit they forget about quality and their consumers health,
which sadly has been the case for a long time. If only we could find some way
that slower more organic production of foods had a greater or about the same
profit as mass producing foods.
Veg-O-might
“If you think of a vegan, you think of someone who is skinny
and frail, who has issues. A tree hugger” he explains that he has became more
than physically fit on his vegan diet, but how? I just don’t think the vegan
diet is the deciding factor; any healthy diet combined with consistent exercise
will produce a good physic. Eating strictly vegan takes away many vitamins and
minerals that the body needs for continuous daily function.
This little piggy
goes home
“Here piggy! piggy!” this quote says it all, its an innocent
phrase, sort of a saying that implies someone is beckoning the pig to come and
fed and taken care of. but at the exact opposite of the spectrum is the actual
reality of why they are beckoning the “piggy.” They need the pig for the food
it provides the consumers. Its an innocent phrase but at the same it is riddled
with dark intent.
I don't think that he was saying that people are choosing to not eat fresh foods. I think he meant that the fresh food is too expensive so no one buys it.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that these big agro-business put their bottom line before the environment and before the health of the people.
It doesn't take away all of them but it makes it much harder to get a lot of them. Things high in protein that you find in meat are hard to find. You also have to eat a lot of them to get enough.
Yeah, I think that it is very important that animals are treated humanely while in captivity. I mean its the we can do in exchange for killing and eating them.
Beets in the hood:
ReplyDeleteI agree with your comment about how we have focused on using chemicals for our food that we have really forgotten what organic food really is. Well, in the area that Allen is from many people did not have a resource for organic food but he’s changing that. It does concern me though that if we continue to not focus on methods to produce organic food that in the future there will not be many being produce especially if one of the problems is money needed to produce organic food and the profit for farmers. Micheal Pollan Fixes Dinner:
I strongly agree when you said “is that they are so transfixed with what makes the most profit they forget about quality and their consumer’s health.” I think that’s basically what really stood out to me through the whole reading. We are focusing on the wrong side of the picture because of companies that only pay attention to their own benefits and not the majority of the people. If we could change this many people would be healthier if healthy food was offered to them but since healthy food is more expensive than fast food and the economy is really bad right now, we are most likely to choose a more affordable option. Price is what draws people away from choosing the healthy option.
Veg-o-might:
When you said "eating strictly vegan takes away many vitamins and minerals that the body needs for continuous function” it caught my attention. It is true that to be a bodybuilder you need a lot of protein but I think that bodybuilders have more protein in there system than then normal amount needed which can become a health issue for them later on. In your response you mentioned that a balanced diet is necessary and I actually agree with you because if you have too much protein it can cause health problems to an individual but if you are mostly vegan than you are actually lacking important minerals as a bodybuilder. I think people mostly focus on one or the other which makes it difficult to have a good balanced diet.
This Little Piggy Goes Home:
I really like your response to this article. You really captured the main point of the article by using the quote “Here, piggy, piggy!” The article focuses on JT as the best in his job which is killing pigs and selling them off. The phrase implies calling out to the pigs with a more positive intention but in the article this phrase is shown to imply a negative attention because they pigs are being called out to their death instead of being called out for feeding. I just really agree with your perspective of that phrase that is so common.