Michael Pollan suggests how industrial food system is unsustainable because of monocultures, which means a lot of the same species are grown together and that’s only possible by using antibiotics to keep them alive. To keep crop healthy, fertilizer is needed. For example, in Iowa, all the farms were corn and soybeans, which are for industrial use mainly. Separating the animals from the farms raises a huge sanitation problem and the animals are not happy with the conditions, a pollution problem occurs as well. Society is obsessed with productivity becoming cheap, which has made more problems regarding pesticides.
There was very little ventilation, almost no windows to let light in, only two big fans to ventilate the house, and the chickens could barely move due to the lack of available space because so many where crammed in there. I will never forget the farmer telling the camera that is not unusual for the chicken to not be able to walk more than a couple of feet, because their muscles cannot support the weight of their upper bodies due to the fact that they have growth hormones in their feed so they would develop faster. Unfortunately with the costs of having and operating a farm, farmers like the one interviewed and many others, no matter how much they disagree with the methods they cannot stop receiving financial support from the big name companies like Tyson in order to survive and make a
"When people are hungry it is an affront to shut them out with a wall of flour. Kaddo said it is hard for the poor people to understand the wants of rich people. So the girls went on with building a wall of surplus corn. When they were done with the wall Kaddo walked all the way around the wall checking it out. He was very proud of his wall.
Men on the other hand had the freedom to freely express themselves by way of literature, which is seen in the works of various authors of this time period. The lack of women authors during this time period leads us to believe that women, for the most part, were limited to domestic duties that were to keep the household running smoothly. Anne Bradstreet on the other hand defied the average norms of a woman’s role in colonial America and voiced her mind by way of literature. In the early Virginian colony, Captain John Smith boasted, “He, who does not work, will not eat.” This shows that there was absolutely no room for slackers, and both men as well as women had to do their part to keep the society running as smooth as possible. The work required to sustain a family in the rather bleak environmental situations of the early colonies was demanding for all.
The president had virtually no authority, and the council spent most of its time arguing and not actually accomplishing any governing. The next problem that Morgan brings to attention is a combination of laziness and the makeup of the population. When the colonists first arrived to Jamestown they functioned as a socialist like community. The colonists farmed as a whole and everyone was given equal portions of the crop, so this was not boost to plant and farm as much as possible. “The work a man did bore no direct relation to his reward.
In both myths, they had a similarity of disobedience. In Genesis, Adam and Eve failed to obey. Adam was told that he was allowed to eat food from any tree except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But God didn’t want him to be left alone in that garden. So instead he put creatures with him but that didn’t help.
not being able to vote or run for president because they're women . They did not have any rights at all. The reason why most men thought women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman!" women should cook and clean and do laundry according to men back in those days. All in all white women were treated
Most of all looking at gender traits and how certain roles where determined because of gender. Took me back to caveman lifestyle of living where woman had little to no involvement in anything men did for their family. Compare and Contrast today’s women to women during that era and you would feel a huge difference in what you will see. How the men operated to build their empire was something I had never seen. It was almost like take my life I will take yours.
“Elisa has no children and her maternal instincts are shown through growing her chrysanthemums as well as other flowers. Even with the flowers and plants it still does not fill the void she has from her husband not understanding her or showing much affection toward her. Elisa has her own soul and seems like a pretty simple person she allows what her husband says and his thoughts dominate her she use’s the chrysanthemums to fulfill what she does not get from her marriage.. Henry Allen your typical male with his thoughts and how he thinks things should be “And I thought,” he continued, “I thought how it’s Saturday afternoon, and we might go into
Bradley remembered his grandfather's words; ' Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.' He struggled to understand why it was so difficult to find that soil to grow into. He has never been accepted and never felt like he belonged to something, and all he ever asked is 'why'. Bradley thought of his characteristics, would his beliefs, his appearance be the problem, or would he just have an unbearable personality. He was confused and couldn’t quite figure out why he was a twenty seven year old man with nothing to belong to.