The Omnivore's Dilemma

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…

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…

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…

"What is food to some, for others it is bitter poison", Lucretius, Roman poet (99 BC-55AC) If California were a country, with its population of nearly 40 million, it would be among the 30 most populous countries. The economic, political and cultural impact of the rest of California in the United States is enormous. It is for this reason that citizens' initiatives that are submitted to a referendum there and state legislation, for that matter, are so important. Of the 11 initiatives presented to…

We all know someone who loves to eat just about anything. Then again, who doesn’t love a good meal every now and then. However, Wendell Berry seems to think we can’t truly enjoy our meal if we don’t know how our meal arrived to our plates. Berry wrote an essay back in 1989 about the issues within the food industry, and the reasons on why we won’t be able to truly enjoy a meal until the issues are solved. In one of his most famous essays, The Pleasures of Eating, Berry talks about how in 1989…

Murders To Our Own Death Do you think the benefits of industrial agriculture outweigh the harms? If you were asked if industrial farming is better than organic farming, would you be able to explain why? Industrial farming has been taking over the agriculture industry, while also killing our planet at the same time. Before the argument is started let us begin with some background information. Industrial farming has been around since 1930s; once the fast food industry started to become popular.…

What Diet is Most Effective? Hooper, B. "Popular Diets - What Is The Evidence?" Nutrition Bulletin 39.3 (2014): 284-289. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Nov. 2014. Dr. Hooper's article compares the weight lost rates of different diets and their health effects. By using random participants, Dr. Hooper was able to avoid biased results while conducting the experiment. Considering any outside factors that may interfere with the data, Paleolithic diets, fasting, and high/low protein diets are…