slow or fast ?

while doing my reserch on the many types of slow food nations i found i constanly asked myself is this going to work. are american known for there hard head and freedom fries willing after all the knowlege about unhealthy food and fast foods dangers just sudddenly gonna stop and say low down keep it cool i serverly doubt it. the fight is an up hill battle against. were ronald mcdonald is holding a bazooka and pollan is holding a hand gun. america's health is the prize. can the education of kids and project set forth enouth to mold a culture or is it over already are we doomed to be an unhealthy fat nation of people who know whats wrong with them but consum it cuz its fast and convenent. or may there is a mid way a compramise if u will were our friendly red headed clown and our witty english professor but down there guns and find some way to feed people foods that both accessible and health. a dream that i gain after doing my reserch. a dream hopefully not to far away

spring time

kingsolver speaks about spring time in her book as a time of growth and sunlight. a quote that stuck out to me was the one she chose to begin her chapter on. April is the cruelest time of month. she later goes to explain spring fever and many other various ativities that her and her family spend during this time. similar to pollan kingsolver is knowlelgeable to a lot regarding to herbal detail. she speaks in detail about the pathogens that are in constant evolution, using plants as there hosts. kingsolver is educated and opinionated which are two ingredents that make me wonder how the rest of the book will take place.

the perfict meal

"everything on the menu must have been hunted,gathered,or grown by me." pollan states that this meal is a perfict meal to him but not nessicarally for others. this is because of the satifsaction from preparing the meal purely from scratch. he did this not to present a solution to the many dilemas humans have but he did it to further understand the process and what it takes for someone to create there own meal. im my opinion it is rediculous to expect every family to gorw there own food and hunt for mushroom, and animals. although this stlye of preparation is a solution to foods problems such as the industry it is a totlally illogical solution compared to the world we live in today.

locovore

locovore are people who do not eat food that are more than 100 miles away from there residences. this usually mean the foods they eat are organic and are usually healthier. locoviors usually have a more diverse range of food because they eat seasonally. which mean that they what ever is in seasons i.e pumkins during fall. the term locovore is a generally new. although being a locovore is an intereseting style of living although it may be generally a difficult way to obtain food. generally for someone like myself who primary lives in the city eating locally may be a difficult tast to take. places like geneseo were we have famers not 2 miles away. being a locovore shouldnt be a full time eating style. in my opion being a locovore is a comprimise. eat as close to were u live as posible

the hunt

i decided to separate this topic from the last beacuse it rose an interesting debate. after discussing the contents of the book were pollan vividly describes his ventures as he hunts pigs, the classed discussed is it fair to hunt with guns. i instantly went with yes it is fair. humans are incapable of running amazing speeds or hearing from long distances but we can use our brains. this allowes us to set traps and even us any weapon we seem fit to capture or kill our prey. we adapted to eat meat and we also adapted in a tecelogical sence. so y cant we combine the two to feed our selves in a qucik and efficant manner

group debate

when it comes to food and the way it is processed it is a well known fact that ppl do not want to know how the food arrived at there plate thus. the term food is good to eat but not nessisaraly good to talk about. as for animal pain and suffering although animals cannot verbally tell us they are in pain they can express alternative forms of discomfort. similar to pain is suffarign dealing with this topic is surtanly harder b/c we cannot determain the emotional aspect of an animal when pain is envolved. how can we tell if an animal is truley suffering, well the anwswer is we cant our only option is to treat an animal humainly as posible b4 its demise. as for vegitarians just because they are not part of the problem dosnt mean there part of the solution. pollan basicly states that veggies are in denail with there tactics on the matter at hand. although my group is mad up of 50 percent veggies and vegans we througly agreed with his claim.

solidarity vs symbiosis

can we decide wats best for other living creaters even if there batirea. does our chemicals and anitbodies cure the illness or does the illness cure itself. are plants better off living with other organizms that can potentaly harm crops or are the chemicals we pump into plants doing that for them. is meddling with nature to manipulate a productive outcome benifial in the end. or is this just an up hill battle. thses are the question i constantly as myself wen i unnessarily defend the big food corps. y do we do it if its just harming surley it has to be benifial in some way shape or form.

sun farming

the ideal of sun farming is fasinating to say the least. it comes from the comcept of a free meal as if the meal was givin to us. like the way the sun provides nutrients to grass. theroeticly if we eat what eats grass we will gain the energy that the sun has provided for the plants. the interesting idea about this book is that it chooses alternative ways of supplying food but also illogical ways of feeding a large quantity of people.

oximoron?

we talked about industrial organic farms. my group even stated that we need a new term other than organ because we see that it does not meet our standards. i tried to play devil's advocate in defending the big monster that everyone saw as the food industry. stating that all the chemicals that they imply into our foods is necessary because the high demands of our foods have changed. i understand that a organic farm dosnt have to be a small feild were everything is grown "right". but if we mangaged to be able to mass produce healthy and high quality foods would we rlly achieve a industrail organic farm?

there presentation

this blog entry is a recap and my point of view of group 1's presentation. there presentation was a hard one to swallow no pun intended, showing the inhuman tretments that animals go through before being killed. they had us go into our group and talk about what we saw. one clip in particular to the others they showed stood out to me. it was wen a chicken was defethered and boiled alive after which they left it writh in pain. i was able to withstand everyother scene besides this one because of the pure agony i could vividly imagine the chicken went through ater such abuse.

poptart?

what is a POPtart. can we grow one? is it in animals? the answer for both of these question is vague as my group discussed. poptarts are mad from various highly processed foods that is generally not vary good for us. one of our groupmates even went as far to say its an abomination of nature along with the twinky. but in my opinion its an abomination which we choose to stay. it comsumers had a choice to choose between growing poptarts or veges, i wouldnt be surpirsed to see poptart as the next cashcrop. poptarts are a perfect example of how everything is over processed to the point that americans wouldnt know or care what it rlly was.

the discussion

cows are being turned into machines, our group came to a conclusion after our last last class. using about 35 gallons of oil per cow and stuffed with anti bodies and fed foods unnatural to there normal habits. how much is really cow and how much is a machine. may sound like a supernatural movie,but what the cooperation is doing is just as horrific. it seems that peoples demands for more and quickly produced food is reflecting negatively opoun the industries and America's health. But what can we do about it if the people's high need for food is growing?

Breakfast

during breakfast a meal i rarely eat i felt that i was over eating in a way and that the items they surved wernt as good (health wise) as lunch and dinner. there arnt salads or other healthy meal. all breakfast hAs to offers i eggs cheese bacon pancakes other highly fattening foods and i think to myslef how is this the most important meal of the day if anything its the worst, the only real benifit that breakfest has is the time slot inwhich it is alotted

the natrual high

while i was writing the paper i realized that eating is a natural high that we desperately try to recreate about on an average of 3 times a day. i remeber having a meal that really hit the spot and i constantly go back to eating to try to make myself feel that satisifed again but saidly i couldnt. i just think that theres more to eating than the social and the phyiscal benifites there deffinatly a mental benifet that applies to it as ppl eat to forget or even to feel better so comparing food to alchol isnt that drastic of an comparison.

doritos

so at the begginig of the semester my freinds and i head to wall mart seems like the locical thing to do after comparing ur nessesities with your roommates and realizign that u lack well nessisary iteams. after procuring deoderant soad a razor we head to the food section were i instantly grab a bag of doritos. days later i start my college diet nothing but some good meat and salads all is well ppl say im slimmer until yesterday night were bordom took the best of me after watching half of season 2 of dexter i decide to open the bag. the bag has been my undo button if u will to rereturn to the old me before the diet and i i did. i enjoyed myself for sometime but i feel the results after my body did not respond well with the junk, stomach bloated aching. i vowed never to succum to temtation of DORITOS

library blog

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its a Saudi Arabian

dinner, i think i could eat this its actually looks really good better than the stuff i eat here and looks like there having a better time at it too

i also found a book called Saudi Arabia: its people, its society, its culture. by a George lipsky. its interesting to see how a nation we view exteremely negatively can have such a jubulent feast. rlly makes us take a step back and think about our seleves a little deeper. also makes me rlly hungry

entry 2

ive been watching more carfuly wat i eat now that im in this class but primarly because ive started college. even tho ive lerned quite alot about protien and carbs in my bio classes i feel like theres more i can do considering my health. so from about yesterday till the day i feel fit enough to pig out i am going on a diet. (wish me luck). its not as radical as the akins or how ever u spell it but it dose invole more fuit and leavy substances. and less pizza (which i already miss)

entry 1

yesterday in INTD we discused the rapid change in american diet. how it should not be called an omivores deliema because many other obnivors do not struggle with rapid or confusing eating patterns. i believe it shouldnt even called the human delema considering how americans struggle with this problem. it think the book should appropiately be titled The American Eating Delema. i included eating into the title because of the simple fact that our diet isnt the only problem with this super power