“…if someone’s going to use my name, charge their customers extra money because of my name, and then pocket the money? It’s fraud.” This quote comes from Troy Johnson’s article Farm to Fable where he interviewed an organic farmer named Tom Chino of Chino farms. This shows how the farmers are affected by restaurants benefitting from their name without actually using their products. Having too many greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is creating a much warmer earth and making it easier for glaciers to melt. So, lessening the gases that we give off as a nation is very important so that Earth stays healthy. One way that our nation could start with is by changing the way we produce food products. Food production in the United States needs to be revamped …show more content…
In the article, Farm to Fable, Troy Johnson talks to Tim Connelly who states, “They (a restaurant in La Jolla) didn’t’ buy any. Eight years later, a friend called to say ‘Hey, I just had your salad at that restaurant!’ The restaurant had been claiming to sell a ‘Connelly Farms Salad’ for eight years.” This quote shows how easy it is for businesses to fraud different farms, because they do not think that any of the farmers will end up finding out. Farm to table has become a really big hit in the American Culture, but more often than not is it farm to fable? Later in his article, Johnson expresses that, “Seafood fraud is rife in the restaurant industry; a 2012 study by watch-dog group Oceana found that 39 percent of seafood in New York City restaurants was mislabeled.” This quote expresses how much fraud really happens that consumers do not see. Thirty nine percent is a very large percentage of wrongly consumed seafood. Customers are being lied to every day and restaurants are not being called out for it but it is unethical and wrong. Organic produce sellers and growers need to stand up for themselves so that restaurants will stop taking advantage of their …show more content…
Bill McKibben in his article, The Only Way to Have a Cow, explains how much of the greenhouse gas emission could be lessened especially because, “…most of all the methane that emanates from the cows themselves (95 percent of it from the front end, not the hind, and these millions of feedlot cows would prefer if you used the eructate in place of belch).” This quote shows how much methane cows themselves create, but there are other factors as well, including; carbon from cutting down forests, from fertilizer and different fuels used to grow crops (mainly corn), exhaust from trucks, and many different sources. Methane and carbon are filling the atmosphere with no good greenhouse gases. Feeding livestock, the correct food, is extremely important, not only for their health but for the environment. Eating less or even grass-fed beef instead of factory farmed beef would help the environment in a multitude of ways. McKibben points out the fact that, “It (eating grass-fed beef) doesn’t get rid of the essential dilemma of killing something and then putting it in your mouth. But it’s possible that the atmosphere would be in favor (of changing how livestock is treated).” By feeding livestock grass instead of corn farmers would be helping lower methane output. If consumers eat less meat they will also help lower greenhouse gases that are put off by factories. Changing the way