They’re designed by evolution to eat grass. And the only reason we feed them corn is because corn is really cheap and corn makes them fat quickly … The industrial food system is always looking for greater efficiency. But each new step in efficiency leads to problems. If you take feedlot cattle off their corn diet, give them grass or five days, they will shed eighty percent of the E. coli in their gut” (Foodincmovie). There have been many cases where children have died just by eating food that has been processed by the food
The problem with white bread is that it is processed and most of the essential nutrients needed are lost in the process. Statistical data shows that 100% whole wheat/whole grain breads have more fiber than white bread or other breads made with wheat flour (Keep kids healthy, n.d.). Whole wheat and white bread have distinct differences even though they both come from grains. The two main differences are how they are processed, both types of bread come from wheat berries, that have three nutrient parts to make up the substance: the bran which is the outer most layer of the berry, the germ, which in the inner most layer, and the endosperm which is the middle layer and it is the part that contains starch. The main difference is when whole wheat bread is processed it retains all three nutrient parts of the wheat berry which is good for the digestive system.
Reymateu Johnson Writing 231 Reading Response #3 November 20, 2014 Reading Response #3 In Omnivores Dilemma: Corn Conquest, Michael Pollan states that most of the industrial food we eat, basically all processed food we find in our supermarkets, can be traced back to corn. Seems and odd concept but scientifically it’s true. The C-4 trick helps explain the corn plant’s success in this competition: Few plants can manufacture quite as much organic matter (and calories) from the same quantities of sunlight and water and basic elements as corn. I found the information in this essay quite interesting. I was surprised to learn that my body had been fundamentally altered by the prevalence of corn.
If all one earned was expended on food anyway and there was practically no choice about the kind of food one could get, then eating one's wages was a system less cumbersome than being remunerated in specie and having to acquire the food afterwards. During famines which were quite frequent, one did not starve if one had savings; and many a peasant rose on the social ladder by exchanging hoarded corn for land during times of dearth. Development of Science and Arts: The greatest element in this civilization was its art. Here, almost at the threshold of history, we find an art powerful and mature, superior to that of any modern nation, and equalled only by that of Greece. At first the luxury of isolation and peace, and then, under Thutmose III and Ramses II, the spoils of oppression and war, gave to Egypt the opportunity and the means for massive architecture, masculine statuary, and a hundred minor arts that so early touched perfection.
With this, it is only right to question if the society was truly advanced. Today, individuals base a societies level of advancement or development on technology because technology is something that present day humans admire and care about. However, individuals need to recognize that the societies in the Americas were extremely successful without the invention of the wheel. Despite their understanding of the wheel, the Olmec were still extremely civilized and advanced. They did not need a wheel in order to succeed, Mann states on page 253 “the Americas lacked animals suitable for domestication” meaning that even if the Olmec had created a larger wheel, they would have no animals to help maneuver goods.
Before the discovery of the potato, Irish people struggled with consuming a variety of food, living mainly off of grain and dairy products (Simon Wright). Potatoes became highly popular because of the easy growing and price of them; almost any family could enjoy potatoes. At the start of the 18th century, Ireland had a population of just over 2 million but by the mid 19th century the population had soared to over 8 million (Simon Wright). Population growth in Ireland made it clear and evident that people from around the world were craving the popular crop. Yet, Ireland remained a poor nation, with millions in poverty.
Explorers returned to Europe with maize, potatoes, and tomatoes, which became very important crops in Eurasia by the 18th century. Similarly, Europeans introduced manioc and the peanut to tropical Southeast Asia and West Africa, where they flourished and supported growth in populations on soils that otherwise would not produce large yields. Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Ecuador, no paprika in Hungary, no tomatoes in Italy, no coffee in Colombia, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no cattle in Texas, no donkeys in Mexico, no chili peppers in Thailand and India, no cigarettes in France,
The documentary Food Inc. touches on these topics and shows how little consumers know about what they eat and where it derives from. The documentary Food Inc. shows how most people are under the fallacious belief that their foods are grown on appealing farms often depicted on the packaging of the product themselves. In reality only a few of these farms are present and large factory farms have replaced most of them (Food Inc.). Food Inc. displays how viciously animals are being treated from their living conditions and at slaughterhouses. The documentary also shows how animals are given antibiotics to make them grow much more rapidly.
The vast majority of the population is living under The World State, which is an eternally peaceful and stable global society in which resources are plentiful and everyone is happy. On the other hand, the society has some flaws. Citizens have no freedom as their happiness is sometimes artificial. The World State also banishes religion, science, art and certain books, making citizens’ individual expression become retarded. Therefore, even though Brave New World is a very stable society, it still has some flaws.
Since no one exercises ownership practices of access or control over materials, there is not a division of society. Foragers do not have many material items, but they are satisfied with what they have. Foragers do not constantly strive for more. As long as they have enough food and do not have to find any; they have lots of down time to do what they want to do. Foraging societies live in very different environments and their needs will vary.