Politics of Food Essay #1 In Wendell Berry’s essay, “The pleasures of eating”, he goes into great detail about how people have become lazy and very ignorant about where their food comes from or what they are actually eating. He also goes into detail about how we are eating unhealthy foods as well. Even though most of the things that are sold at a supermarket or a store contain unhealthy things. At first glance, my diet may seem more on the healthy side. My mom looks at the ingredients in whatever she is going to but before she buys it.
One sausage and one hash brown for breakfast just doesn't cut it. All of these problems require an improvement in the quality of LSMSA food. Currently, the food here has a lot to be desired. Most of the food, and surprisingly even the fried food, taste extremely bland. LSMSA students are being repelled by the blandness.
That’s why they tend to overeat and get overweight. Some people feel satisfy with food and it makes them happy. I think those people are very lazy and just want to do whatever they feel good about. I know that obesity is not only having extra weight but also cause many health problems. Many obese people suffer from heart disease, diabetes and many other things.
The events in Johns life that interrelate to effect his further development is that he has been made redundant and has taken up smoking and heavy drinking. This will physically effect his development as the constant drinking and smoking will go onto harm his organs and can lead to liver damage, lung cancer, yellow teeth’s or failure of the organ itself. As he has consumed alcohol, it will slow him down thus making his reaction to things slower than usual. His intellect will be affected as the intoxication will affect his judgement and John will be unable to make formed decisions as he wouldn’t be able to take things seriously. His perception and views on things around him will be altered as he is unable to think straight.
When you tackle her she says Mr Salinky is confused so he won’t know what he’s eating. Firstly I would totally feel that this is a discriminatory act. My reason for my opinion on this is due to the neglectful actions when taking into account his cultural believes and wishes. I feel this act from another colleague actually borders on institutional abuse. Especially since I’d made attempts to challenge her on her reasons for giving him the meat.
i“Food Connection” In his essay, “Food Connections”, David Suzuki highlights the different ways food is produced and consumed through out the world, as well as the separation of man from the natural world. The major issues brought up include the ways people of first world nations have become desensitized to the natural origin of the products they consume, the loss of a sense of connection with the natural planet, and a stark comparison of markets in third world countries to that of ours. Eating is an everyday activity that we as humans engage in at least 3-4 times a day, and not including those dreaded late night cravings for cake and cold pizza. We live in a world where the variety of food that is readily available to us is staggering, to the point where one can enjoy a French breakfast and top it off with an English lunch; we have the world on our plate. We have become accustomed to a standard of perfection with how our food looks and tastes that we do not stop for a moment and think of where it comes from, its natural origin.
The manipulation doesn’t stop there. When you are old enough to go to school, the cafeteria of your safe and trustworthy environment will give you unhealthy treats and lunches that contain no nutritional value, yet feed it to you and simultaneously encourage you to do your best and make good choices. They also feed it to you without giving you a proper introduction of what it is you are actually consuming. This is where the lack of education of a healthy diet
I find that it would be much more confusing to understand why someone would be placed in a jacket if unless the jacket is for protection from one’s self or others or from the weather. Perhaps this same individual is repeating no all day long in answer to the bread and meat, desiring other sustenance, finally putting on a jacket and going home to eat something different. It is a more parsimonious assumption, in considering the title, that this is merely a list of several
David’s rude teacher not only criticized, but broke down not only him, but also his fellow classmates emotionally as well. While his classmates where being humiliated for their word choices with their answer, he sat there thinking of answers that wouldn’t bring him the most humiliation. Speaking in French, he had to list a few things that he disliked; David’s list of things that he disliked was “blood sausage, intestinal pates, and brain pudding” were a few of the things he mentioned (Sedaris). Then he goes and delivers a few things that he liked such as “IBM typewriters, the French work for bruise, and my electric floor waxer” but he then forgot that he needed to give these objects a gender (Sedaris). Students left class feeling discouraged to keep on learning the language.
She suggests we use this example to change our view on junk food. This introduces the idea of national pride; with this, she makes the reader feel a little ashamed of our nation and its reputation of obesity and gluttony. She creates a feeling of disgust when she associates Americans junk food obsession with that of smoking cigarettes, a habit that is now mostly seen as repulsive. Finally, Warner concludes her writing piece with the suggestion that in order to change the lifestyles of Americans, we must scrutinize junk food and essentially shame anyone who wants to eats it. I believe she has accomplished this very well with her use of certain comparisons and associations, as well as her language and reference to negative