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.