I agree with Pollan's argument about how food culture is a set of social and ecological relationships reaching back to the land and outward to other people. I'm going to give you facts about my personal food culture. The second paragraph will be about how other people connect to having social and ecological relationships with their food culture. The last paragraph will be about how the farmers/food growers get helped and make profit from other people buying their product's. All these paragraphs will prove why Pollan's idea about how food cultures is a set of social and ecological relationships.
One of the reasons why I think I have social relationships I have some personal stories about my food culture. I remember there would be one …show more content…
Farmers get helped by people that buy their products from the store the Farmers grow the crops and the vegetables and transport and make a deal with other local grocery stores. Once that happens the farmers make money from that and the grocery stores starts selling the products customers will buy it to put profit into the store and the farmers pocket's for instance every Saturday when I was young I would go to the grocery store with my dad and we would get a lot of vegetables for the week. However most people but not everyone goes to grocery store to make their meals Pollan claims "A hallmark of the Western diet is food that is fast, cheap, and easy. Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food; they also spend less than a half hour a day preparing meals and little more than an hour enjoying them"(425). This should change over a couple of …show more content…
I claimed in one of my stories that I go to grocery store and buy food from there and that’s how I make most of my meals. In overall, I think he is a little bit of both with his argument such as I stated in paragraph 4 Pollan states "A hallmark of the Western diet is food that is fast, cheap, and easy. Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food; they also spend less than a half hour a day preparing meals and little more than an hour enjoying them"(425). This is a 50-50 claiming the argument on having social and ecological relationships. So in overall I think that from my personal stories my food culture that I have now and growing up is more tied up to the