Cattle were often left dead and rotting among the other cattle, in the pens, and where they grazed. Horses were also sometimes used after they had died and ground into fertilizer. This was also true for pigs, goats, sheep, and lamb. When they were packaged, diseased or not, the consumer would rarely get what they paid for. A pound of lamb could have easily been a goat, canned meats were usually and still are to this day a smorgasbord of normally unusable animal parts, and for a period of time beef was substituted with horse.
Outline for the Food Review Movie being reviewed: Food Inc. Facts in the movie: * The animals that are stored in factories are stored in their own manure creating a very high chance of the animals getting ecoli and when one animal gets it is is nearly impossible from it spreading. * The reason why so many people are buying the cheaper and processed junk is because the way the economy is, healthy food is just to much money when you can buy a meal for a family of four under ten dollars. * Today, chickens are being raised in 49 days which is half the time they were raised in the 1950’s. Although this May sound like the chickens would be skinnier it is quiet the opposite. Now chickens are given so much processed chemicals that by
Compared to the wheat that was the most common staple and potatoes, the wheat was inferior in the amount of work it took to grow it, its susceptibility to weather and predators, and most especially, to the amount of calories produced versus the amount taken to work the field. Potatoes gave over three times as much return. And then the population exploded, as Europeans finally had enough to eat and to trade. And how about modern government. Think we got that from the Greeks and Romans?
There is always a salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, avocados and green peppers. I will switch potatoes, pasta or rice and most nights have a vegetable. I drink milk with dinner but throughout the day I drink at least 4 or 5 bottles of water. I have cut deserts (which was a very hard thing for me to give up) and only eat them on occasion. I make pumpkin bread on occasion or have been buying fruit newton crisps for when I have a sweet
Corn is generally used in many meals. Most foods are fried in oil. Other dishes served are enchiladas, tortillas, and vigorón (vegetables and pork skins). People usually use knives and forks but will also use tortillas to scoop their food. The economy of Nicaragua is VERY poor.
(Food Inc.) The narrator gives facts on how we as customers get to enjoy ‘tomatoes’ all year round. He states that they were “grown half way around the world, picked when it was green and ripened with ethylene gas” (Food Inc.). This is meant to inform the audience that what they are eating isn’t what it seems. Just like the rest of the vegetables in the supermarket that is not labeled “organic”. We rarely think completely about where the food we eat comes from and how is it produced.
Diamond mentions on page 107 that a possible ideology that many people that knew about the processes of farming were thinking was, “Shall I spend today hoeing my garden (predictably yielding a lot of vegetables several months from now), gathering shellfish (predictably yielding a little meat today), or hunting deer (yielding possibly a lot of meat today, but more likely nothing)?” Humans and animals are always prioritizing by availability and preferability of food choices. Availability played a key role because as wild game was hunted, its numbers depleted and became harder to hunt, offering less possibility of a decent payoff. This is possibly why in central and southeastern Europe the hunter-gatherer lifestyle became less effective, thus being a less likely life
The Africans were okay in working in the hot weather, they were use to the climate. Slaves were like pioneers. They made their own pottery, clothes and food. They also would hunt and gather things as well. The African Americans would eat chicken, pork, beef, deer, possum, frogs, squirrels, and raccoons.
They thrived on the cool air and moist soil and by the 1800s potato was Ireland’s staple diet. It had become the staple crop in the poorest regions of Ireland. Potatoes provide protein, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins. Irish people could survive year after year and the people were sustained as long as the crop did not fail! The famine began in September 1845, it was an airborne fungus which killed the much needed crops and in turn caused the migration from Ireland.
Acknowledged as a dark time in the history of America, this period of time resulted in a meal made from the inadequate ingredients available to the slaves and sharecroppers of black families. The meats and vegetables used in this period were the undesirable cuts, with some vegetables closest to eating weeds, but that was the only thing available for the black slaves to prepare for their families. From these inadequate ingredients evolved a meal that is simple, yet wholehearted and delicious. Seasoned, battered, smoked, fried, collard greens, fried chicken, potato salad corn bread, mac n, cheese, and sweet potato pie are all the results from this amazing African American heritage. Many other soul foods include chicken and waffles, chicken fried steak, fried chicken, fried fish, collard greens, black eyed peas, and much more All of these being the foundation of black Southern