The Omnivore's Dilemma

Organic food, that’s all a person hears nowadays from hair shampoo to dog food all the the way to vegetables are organic. An organic product is made from the earth with no pesticides and is harvested by a farming method that is healthy for the environment. Organic food trend has started for many reason with many consequences, but some of this reasons are why Americans are crazy about organic food. In the 1930’s in the British Empire and Germany, the organic food trend started because of social…

Rugby is regarded around the world as a high intensity, physical, and challenging sport. In the United States, it is regarded as a barbaric, un-regulated, and foolish sport. This misconception comes from the widely inaccurate notion that concussion among other injuries is inevitable in the sport. Rugby is beginning to take hold in high schools across the countries, and young adult athletes are the first generation to bring this internationally recognized sport to America. The idea of rugby being…

swift and painless (Dilemma328). Continuing to eat meat will become more tolerable in time if there is transparency. It is the best way to ensure that animals that are being slaughtered for consumption is done in a manner that people can abide by (Dilemma 331). There is no evidence that farm animals suffer any less than family pets, and they too are intelligent, and have individual personalities and social emotional…

Evans-Pritchard, and Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives, by Jon D. Holtzman, the lives of pastoralists in southern Sudan are discussed. In the selection by Evans-Pritchard, we learn about a group who’s social and economic structures rely heavily on cattle. Cattle cannot be tended by a single family alone, so several families may tend and protect their cattle together. The cattle belong to the head of the household, and even among his death, the family is reluctant to break up the herd, at least until…

For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap and tasty. Kenner explores the topic from all viewpoints, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who has been urging for more severe standards since E-coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son. Challenges are to create regulations that might prevent such deaths. Such cases…

Some argue that GMOs are not worth the slightly higher prices for farmers, like George Naylor in The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Pollan says that he, “doesn’t think it’s worth the extra twenty five dollars a bag (in technology fees) they cost” (Pollan 36). However, Scientific American published an article on GMOs that covered a study done over how genetically…

Bonney R. J. (2006). Farm animal welfare at work. Applied Animal Behavior Science, 100(1-2), 140-147. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2006.04.007 In this article, Roland James Bonney discusses the problems associated with animal welfare on farms. Bonney references studies done from the Food Animal Initiative (2001) regarding their approach to improving animal welfare on farms, using ethical treatment and science to understand and develop practical solutions to solve supply standards and improvement of…

Consuming fast food negatively affects today’s society because it causes obesity. The food served in fast food restaurants is highly processed, full of fat, calories, and sodium. Dr. Robert Lustig, an expert on obesity claims that “excessive amounts of sugar can serve as a toxin that contributes to obesity in a big way and also to many other lethal diseases” (Mercola Health). The liver converts most of that fructose that is eaten into fat for storage. Easily, one could consume 1,500 calories in…

McDonalds has been around long since 1940 and has expanded all over the world into 119 different countries, transplanting over 36,000 outlets. It’s found at gas stations, shopping malls, college campuses, sporting events and even hospitals. McDonalds is monopolizing itself in each block and taunting us to dine there. The people are aware that McDonald’s food can be harmful to our bodies but what makes people continue to consume their food is not just because it is delicious, it’s also affordable…

Fifty-six percent of the carbon in a serving of Chicken McNuggets from McDonalds is derived from corn. One coule imagine making a chicken nugget out of four or maybe five ingredients; Chicken McNuggets have thirty-eight (Pollan 113-117). This is just one of the many bizarre and often dangerous results of the conduct of the food processing industry. Many other foods carry a much higher risk. Americans should be made aware of the questionable practices used during commercial food processing to…