...Have you ever thought about what's in your food or what food chain is the best for you and your body to maintain being healthy? In Michael Pollan’s book Omnivore’s Dilemma it covers four different food chains which consist of industrial, industrial organic,local sustainable,hunter/gatherer/gardened food the difference is that one is grown on a farm and the other is processed. Local Sustainable is better for the people in the United States because it is healthier for your body and no pesticides are used in the food. Local Sustainable has a lot less pollution than other food industries have. Pollan went to a farm and learned that local sustainable does not use pollution or pesticides For example in the text it says, “No fossil fuels or...
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...SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: ...
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...| The Omnivore Review | A review on Michael Pollans “The Omnivore dilemma” | | Cody Windsor Harrington | DeVry University | The Omnivore Review As agriculture technology continues to advance in the new world most of us have lost our pre historic skills of basic survival when it comes to hunting and gathering. America’s agriculture logistics are so well developed that most Americans relay on this system to stay alive. A small portion of people out there still remain intact with their pre historic agriculture skills. That is what Author Michael Pollan writes about In Part 3, Chapters 15, 16, and 17 of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Michael Pollan talks about looking for different foods, the ethics of hunting animals and harvesting the meat as well as giving a brief look into what brought about the paradox of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Chapters 15, 16, and 17 bring up a lot of good points about foraging and hunting. Pollan provides in depth detail and research on the topics. The difficult part is staying focused on the story the author is illustrating. Pollan tends to bounce around on different topics and drags out details making it difficult to keep the reader entertained. Chapter 15 of Omnivore's Dilemma discusses how Pollan is preparing to make a meal from all of the foraging groups. Fruits, vegetables, fungi, and meat were the components that made up this meal. His goal was to find and gather enough from each group to make his first meal from nature. Pollan discusses...
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...The Omnivore’s Dilemma – All about the Corn Non-fiction books for me need to be based on un-twisted facts; no sugar coating or conveniently left out information. While humor is often appreciated in more serious or less interesting subjects; the truth should not be diluted or altered in order to sway the reader’s beliefs or opinions. Sound research, interesting subject and a clear explanation are important to me when I read non-fiction. The book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, was not able to hold my attention for more than a few paragraphs. The national eating disorder of which this book is supposed to be explaining seems to have been lost to the subject of corn. We still don’t know after reading part one, what we should eat for dinner. While the facts are there in regards to corn and how many products we use corn in or are a product of corn; the eating disorder does not seem to be the main focus in the first three chapters of part one. Understandably corn is an integral part of our diet and in many of the products we should and should not eat. This knowledge does not help readers to understand there is more to the national eating disorder than the fact that corn is in many of our foods. Corn alone is not the problem! Things like portion control can greatly reduce obesity as well as other eating related health issues like diabetes and high blood pressure; none of this was mentioned in the opening paragraphs of a book that is supposed to touch on the subject of the national...
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...Industrial Contamination of Livestock and Its Effects on Food Safety Abstract This research paper will examine the government’s attempt to reduce the manufacturing contamination of the nation’s meat supply. Federal, state and local agencies work together in order to create a source, reason, actions necessary to control and prevent foodborne illnesses from reoccurring. Increase in the number of food related illnesses have people wondering if meat and processed food will ever be safe to eat. Cattle contaminated with bacteria such as E-Coli get their way to grocery stores due to improper management of the food production system. Change in food safety policies and assessment guidelines prompted state and local health officials to inform Americans on the dangers of contaminated meat products and other foods. President Obama has proposed new guidelines in the Food Safety Act; more stringent measures taken in the investigation of meat production, factory farming and facilities by the USDA and the FDA. Opposing entities dispute that animals need protection from parasites and bacteria as well also and should be proven that antibiotic use in animals is harmful to humans. There is not enough concrete evidence to prove that use of antibiotics or hormones in meat products are a threat to humans if consumed. So enlighten by the present debate the government has permitted use of chemicals, and other substances in production and processing of meat and processed foods, not for just...
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...pushed on society with the intention to bring awareness to sustainability. In Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the issue of agriculture sustainability is presented. True sustainability is not just agriculture; it is all the natural renewable resources available in the world. Humans do not realized the amount of packaged products they consume in a day or the harmful chemicals that we pollute the earth with when we drive or apply them to agriculture. As consumers we look for convenient, cheap, and accessibility to minimize the time needed in order to perform everyday tasks. Until humanity grasps how these every day products are hazardous not only chemically but also on our natural resources; we as a people will continue to consume un-renewable resources. By increasing the concept of a sustainable development, humanity will use fewer nonrenewable resources such as petroleum’s and fossil fuels and rely on renewable resources such as solar energy. Without a defined structure of true sustainability; governments, corporations, businesses, companies and individuals will continue to depreciate the Earth’s natural resources until it is uninhabitable. “All definitions of sustainable development require that we see the world as a system—a system that connects space; and a system that connects time.”(EurActiv, 2004) Sustainability as referenced in Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma is referring to human sustainability. The use of sustainability in this form has yet to receive a...
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...changes the school lunch menu without consulting the kids first, and how the students did not like the changes at all. The new menu had fruits and vegetables making up at least half of the servings on every students plate. This new menu was widely rejected by students and a black market of junk food was even created by certain students. This article supports the idea that by including children in implementing changes in diet and menu, those changes may be more successful. It also points out that by slowly introducing kids to healthy alternatives and informing them about why a change to a healthier diet of fruits an vegetables is important to having a higher quality of life as they get older. This idea supports the second part of my research paper where I discuss the importance of children becoming interested in growing vegetables is an important part of changing the eating habits of American families. Thus, reducing the levels of obesity and type II diabetes in America. Bittman, M. (2011, September 24). Is junk food really cheaper?. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all This article takes on the excuse that so many Americans use as an explanation as to why they eat so unhealthy, junk food is cheaper than healthy food. Using a fast food meal’s cost for a family of four and the cost of a home cooked roasted chicken to feed 6 people, proving that it is in fact...
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...The Purdue OWL: Citation Chart Category General Approach MLA The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides a method for source documentation that is used in most humanities courses. The humanities place emphasis on authorship, so most MLA citation involves recording the author’s name in the physical text. The author’s name is also the first to appear in the “Works Cited” page at the end of an essay. The most recent MLA formatting can be found in the seventh edition of the MLA manual. APA The American Psychological Association (APA) provides a method for source documentation that is used in most social sciences courses. The social sciences place emphasis on the date a work was created, so most APA citation involves recording the date of a particular work in the physical text. The date is usually placed immediately after the author’s name in the “References” page at the end...
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...Obesity Ruba Albaroudi 150/150 A Obesity is becoming an ever growing issue in the United States. It is very important to completely comprehend the scope and nature of this epidemic. Children spend the majority of their day in school and most of them eat breakfast or lunch at least once a day in the school cafeteria. Serving unhealthy food that have high calories, corn syrup, and is processed contribute toward the growing obesity in our country. Although fast food is convenient and inexpensive, we as a society need to stop eating fast food because it has increased health problems. We have to develop ways to eat healthy instead of tempt to choose fatty food that is served in school cafeterias, can be contributing to children becoming obese. There needs to be adjustments to the menus so schools could serve the proper nutrition that children need to stay healthy, as well as preventing this issue from happening in the future. It is important to understand what children are eating at school and if the can potentially cause them to become obese. The food industry often hides the methods of how their food is being produced using excuses like business secrets to cover it up. However, in the end consumers have the right to know what they are eating. Childhood obesity has escalated over the past decades and it is only getting worse. According to The National Academies Press(2005), “Nationwide, roughly nine million children over six years of age are obese— with...
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...University Effects of Government Subsidies on Small Farmers Growing up in the rural Midwest I have known and been close friends with quite a few farm families. Until reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I never fully understood the impact that government subsidies had on the average family farmer. While I understand the need for some government intervention to keep farmers able to work, I think the government has overstepped their boundaries and ended up hurting the very people these plans were put in place to protect. Current government farm subsidies are geared towards large corporations at the expense of small, family farmers: most farm subsidies are only paid for corn and soybean growers and leave out small farmers growing other crops while artificially lowering the price of these crops to sometimes below the actual cost of production, and the majority of farm subsidy payouts go to the top 10% of producers; some proposed solutions are to overhaul the current USDA farm subsidy programs to include farmers growing crops other than corn and soybeans, change the way the subsidies are paid to help bring the crop prices more in line with the cost of production, to put a cap on the amount of subsidies paid out to any individual farm or to just do away with the USDA farm subsidy program altogether. Problems Research shows that 90% of all USDA farm subsidies go to the growers of only 5 crops; corn, cotton, rice, wheat and soybeans (Monke, CSR Reports, 2006). There are currently restrictions...
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...The Local Food Movement Benefits Farms, Food Production, Environment The Local Food Movement, 2010 Pallavi Gogoi is a writer for BusinessWeek Online. She frequently writes on retailing. Just as small family-run, sustainable farms were losing their ability to compete in the food marketplace, the local food movement stepped in with a growing consumer demand for locally grown, organic, fresh produce. In addition to supermarket giants following the trend toward locally grown food and devoting shelf space to such items, local foods are also finding their way into schools, office cafeterias, and even prisons. Although the trend toward organic foods has not waned, consumers are increasingly aware of the environmental impact caused when organic foods must travel to find their way to the local grocery store shelf. For this and other reasons, consumers are opting instead for locally grown counterparts, choosing to eat what is available in each season in their areas rather than purchasing food that must be shipped from other regions. Drive through the rolling foothills of the Appalachian range in southwestern Virginia and you'll come across Abingdon, one of the oldest towns west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. If it happens to be a Saturday morning, you might think there's a party going on—every week between 7 a.m. and noon, more than 1,000 people gather in the parking lot on Main Street, next to the police station. This is Abingdon's farmers' market. "For folks here, this is part of the Saturday...
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...indigenous new world cosmographies, illustrate the important sociocultural role the plant has played for millennia. However, modern society has elevated Zea mays far above the status of mere plant, fashioning it into a commodity intimately connected to systems of control and capitalism. Consequently, corn has played an essential role in colonization, industrialization, and the advent of overproduction. The beliefs and literature of numerous new world cultures, along with the literatures of modern Western cultures, offer a striking analysis of corn's current position in western society. The far-reaching impacts that corn has on our socioeconomic and subsistence systems reveal a great deal about globalization, commodification, and dominance. This paper examines corn through a cultural studies lens, documenting the influence of this iconic foodstuff and analyzing its effects over historical and cultural boundaries. 2 Corn has long been located at the center of indigenous new world cultures, as well as at the center of modern Western society, and its presence spans and transcends boundaries between cultures and time periods. Corn’s genesis as a foodstuff, and its ascension to the status of...
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...They’re all foods that contain a sizeable amount of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)! HFCS is syrup from cornstarch that’s turned into Americas most popular and cheap sweetener for many food products. Starting a few years ago a slew of ad campaigns against and for HFCS invaded American television broadcasting. I was not aware of the positives of the negatives of high fructose corn syrup, and honestly didn’t even know what it was. The advertisements started my line of questioning. After reading part on of The Omnivore’s Dilemma my position on the topic of HFCS is beneficial because the production of the product allows for the development of low cost food items, due to the American government subsidies to corn production. HFCS also allows for the productions of a variety of many low cost food products, which sustain American farmers business with the use of subsidizes. Although many argue HFCS is less health than other types of sweeteners that cost more to produce, research has shown that high fructose corn syrup is chemically similar to table sugar. (Insert Cite) High fructose corn syrup is created when the “molecular composition of glucose and convert it to fructose” (oukosher., 2012). Essentially it’s a process that combines one glucose molecule with one fructose molecule that is fixed with fructose, and to add more “sweetness” to the product one way is to add slightly more glucose than fructose. The two researchers responsible for this process go by the name of Marshall...
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...is increased. Technology is involved in every facet of our lives. It is used continuously every day whether it be waking up to an alarm clock, watching TV that you recorded on a digital video recorder, brushing your teeth with a mechanical toothbrush, or using your GPS navigation system when going to your latest vacation destination. The latest technology has made it possible for people to communicate with others all over the world in both audio and video formats. Scientists are continuously looking for ways to make living easier and more productive. They are looking for solutions to world hunger, new medical advances to cure cancer and other diseases plaguing the world, and ways to make our society a healthier place to live. In this research paper, we will be discussing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and their contributions to these causes. We will be examining the history, political, moral, ethical, and many other ways that GMOs have influenced everyday living. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)...
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...Microcultures in Canada A Comparative Approach Introduction Every society contains both a mainstream culture and many different subcultures. The mainstream culture is how one is identified as. However, microcultures consist of how we identify ourselves within the global mainstream culture. There are multitudes of ways to participate in a microculture. It could be along ethnic, religious lines, or even lifestyle. All these factors come into play with regards to the different aspects of microcultures. This paper will delve into all three types of microcultures; it will look at Vietnamese, Jewish, and Vegan cultures and compare them to mainstream Canadian culture. The subsequent comparative analysis aims at finding differences in an attempt to better understand and communicate more effectively, by clarifying the common misunderstandings that arise when communicating with different microcultures, whether in business or everyday life. Vietnamese Background/History/Evolution Representing one of the largest non-European sub-cultures in Canada, the Vietnamese community ranks 5th in terms of size and comprises just over 150,000 individuals. Concentrated in metropolitan areas, close to 60% of the population resides in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary (Statistics Canada see Appendix B). Despite currently being a sizable group, this sub-culture was virtually non-existent prior to the Vietnamese war that took place between 1964 and 1975. It wasn't until the conflict arose...
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