He brings up a lot of arguments and points in his book and one he uses is Logos to better his points. One specifically he uses is his point on how the fast food industry is the largest group by far that employs low wage workers. He says no skill required and I really like this “The annual turnover rate in the fast food industry is about 300 to 400 percent. The typical fast food worker quits or is fired every 3 to 4 months” (90). Schlosser betters his argument with the use of strong facts and gives the points strength.
Dear Nation, Did you know that one third of tax payers money was used for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also known as SNAP formally known as food stamps. In 2009 they gave $4.6 billion in food stamps to over 43 million people. More that 14% of these people are not even eligible to participate in this program but find ways to any way. I believe that families that do not deserve this service should not get and the families that do deserve it are getting to much. A family of four on average gets $668 a month to spend on food.
This take over has been aided by none other than the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More and more they are coming down with strenuous and tedious regulations that don’t make the food safer, just procedures that make it difficult for the farmer who is trying to grow more pure food. They make it so hard for anyone except a Mega Farmer to produce because they require such a large number of crops and animals to be processed in a short length of time as Joel stated in the Omnivore’s Delimma. (Pollan,2006) Just because a group produces more, doesn’t mean they produce better. There is also a direct correlation between the amount of money these farmers contribute to politicians, as to how much hassle is taken in by the farmers.
Such facilities house animals destined for the food industry--lots of them. Depending on the type of livestock, a CAFO can house several hundred animals all the way up into the millions (Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook 4). Being that their primary purpose in life is to grow as large as possible, as fast as possible, the animals are constantly fed, and are constantly turning that food into manure. Though an animal defecating is nothing new or shocking, the vast quantities or feces produced provide an interesting logistical problem for CAFO operators. Take into consideration the following: The average dairy cow can produce as much as 21 times the amount of waste per day that the average human does (Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook 4).A large sized CAFO housing 4700 cattle can produce as much waste per day as the human population of Berkeley, CA.
Mr. Fridman is correct that America does need its nerds. Intellectual humans began this country and they still run it today. America is not run by a bunch of New York Yankees or Pittsburg Steelers, but its run by Yale or Harvard graduates. The men and women that do more for this country than anything are college graduates who took their studies and education far past the point of any expectations. Some people are just not blessed with athleticism, but those who are blessed with the desire and will to learn and create are the ones of really make a difference in our society.
In document 3, Harry Truman states that the developing countries not only need but also deserve the support of the developed countries to improve living conditions, food supply, disease control, and economic life. The significance of this article is that the author never states that the Green Revolution is the solution, he only points out that there is a problem and that the developed countries are what can solve it. Document 10 states that the nature of the seed the people of Latin America had been growing for thousands of years has lost respect due to the imposition of the Green Revolution. He later says how the revolution contaminated the seeds as well as the over all environment. The significance of this document is that the author is explaining how the Green Revolution has affected small countries and peoples in a bad manner and that the revolution did not help their situation.
John Powell once said ‘human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection’. Honestly, who here doesn’t want to grow, none of us want to be in the atmosphere of rejection, we want to be in the upper-class of society, but what does that mean for us, we have money, a lot of it and a nice car, the house, the perfect life, but is it?.... do we really value these materialistic measures of how successful we are, cant success be measures in your personal quality of life? I don’t believe I need everyone else telling me how imperfect I am.
In fact between 1780 and 1980 sixty acres of wetland were destroyed every hour (ODW). Ignoring the importance of wetlands has lead to half of the wetlands in the entire United States being drained or filled. Ohio has had 90% of its original wetlands destroyed; this is only trumped by California in largest percent of wetland destroyed. Wetlands are a valuable resource in our ecosystem that seems to receive little discussion with most environmentalists. A piece of land is determined to be a wetland by three characteristic.
Humans have always been able to survive for two to eight weeks without food; this will some time depend on the stored body fat, on the other hand survival without water is limited to two to four days this also depends on the amount of hydration that takes place. The lack of the right food remains one of the most serious problems, around the world with around 35 million humans starving to death every year. Malnutrition in childhood is also one of the most common conditions today of diseases. The global distributions of food is not equal, and obesity among a lot of human in the United States populations has increased to almost epidemic proportions, this has lead to health complications and increased mortality in some developed, and a few developing
With the current population in the United States being 307,898,367 (U.S. Census Bureau), this means Americans throw away 449,531,615,820 pounds of trash a year. If Americans are producing this much trash, where are they putting it all? They’re piling it up in landfills. According to the article, “Landfills: Hazardous to the Environment,” the United States has 3,091 landfills in use right now as well as over 10,000 landfills that are not in use (par. 1).