Farm City Summary

In the article, “Escape from The Western Diet,” by Michael Pollan, who has also written many nutritional books, blames our unhealthy eating on the food industry. He argues that we should avoid any processed foods because of what they have become (424). Also, he claims that the American views for preparing a meal has downgraded over the years (425). His solution is to not overeat, but to eat plants instead because they are not as manipulated

With a big city comes big diversity. My hometown, the city of Chicago, not only is diverse because of the people, but it is also very diverse because of the food. If you were to visit the top floor of the Willis Tower, or as my fellow Chicagoans would refer to it as the Sears Tower, you would be able to see majority of Chicago, and its various components. My hometown of Chicago has actually tried to be more organic and be more involved in the food movement, as well. Even within my neighborhood, which is a primarily Hispanic neighborhood, has tried to be more organic. Although some may argue it’s hard to be organic in such a huge city because of all of the food deserts, Chicago is trying very hard to counteract this for the sake of the health of our city.

In recent decade, the United States has seen supermarkets continuously get filled with packages labeled with things like “Low sodium” or “No Trans Fats.” Companies stick these labels on their food to match the current fads of what is good for you and what is not. In his essay Unhappy Meals, Michael Pollan advocates a return to natural and basic foods, and deplores nutritionism. Pollan argues that nutritionism does not actually tell people what is healthy or not, and that the only way to be sure you are eating healthy is to eat natural, fresh food.

The last thing that comes to our mind when we order a piece of steak at a restaurant is

“Consider the Lobster” is an article written by David Foster Wallace that appeared on the magazine Gourmet which provides thought provoking information about the morality behind consuming lobster. Wallace wants his readers to literally consider the lobster as he discusses about the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live creature with possible sentiment. By giving the example of a lobster, he tries to convey that many other animals such as deer are treated inhumanely for the sake of human satisfaction. Even though Wallace has no intentions of persuading his readers to become a vegetarian, the sole purpose of writing this article is to address animal

Begin by reading about Rhetorical Analysis (41-54). Then, read Gary Steiner 's "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" (769-773) and write three paragraphs. This will be your first online activity.

Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals is a book about persuasion. Foer seeks to convince his readers to take any step in reducing what he believes is the injustice of harming animals. To achieve this, Foer employs many persuasion techniques and often changes his approach when he targets specific groups. His strategies include establishing himself as an ethical authority and appealing to his readers’ emotions, morals, and reason.

Berry says, “Consumers that think they are distanced from agriculture because they can easily buy food, making them ignorant of cruel conditions it went through to get on the shelf”. That statement is to scare his audience because Berry says people are what they eat and tells how animals are abused in brutal as well as intolerable ways. His reasoning for this statement was because people are so use to just going into stores and picking up foods and have no idea where it’s from or how did it get there. This frustrates the farmer because to him everyone are just passive consumers. The industry is controlling the human’s minds and the industry have them blindsided to eating for just

When it comes to food everyone has an opinion on what should and what shouldn’t be eaten. Some may believe that eating meat isn’t ethical regardless of what kind of animal it is while others may disagree. What it means to eat ethically is always going to be a debated topic. Is there a right or wrong side? In Blake Hurst, Peter Singer, Jayson Lusk and Amelia Tait, articles they argue whether or not animals should be used for industrial farming; while Singer and Tait share the same opinion that it is incorrect and use logos and ethos to support their views, Hurst and Lusk argue that there is nothing wrong with this practice and use examples and resources to persuade the reader.

Assuredly crime can have negative effects on anyone involved, however when the offender is familial, it can have an increased amount of detrimental effects on mental health. In the novel The Farm, Tilde is raped by her father repeatedly as a child. After she finally ran away, she leads a nearly perfect life, until her and Chris retire and move to a new country. In their new home, Tilde finds an abandoned building that Chris frequents, with many used condoms on the front lawn. It is 6.2 times more likely for a victim of rape to develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder than someone who has never been raped. This disorder requires a trigger incident for symptoms of PTSD to occur. For Tilde, it is seeing illicit sex that triggers her PTSD. At that

Many of us, nowadays, eat and enjoy eating meat but many would agree that this is actually not an ethical action. Michael Pollan, in his persuasive style article “An Animal's Place" published in The New Work Times Magazine, on November 10, 2002 intends to persuade his audience that humans should respect animals and as long as they are treated well in farms and give them a more peaceful life and death it will be fine to eat them. According to Pollan, in today's huge industrial farms, cruel and unbearable things happen that are against animals rights. There is a high possibility that in the future these actions will stop as already some protest for animal rights have begun, because animals have feelings and farms take advantage of them thinking that they are mere machines, making them suffer. The solution to this conflict according to the author who supports friendly farms that respect and give a fun and secure life for animals. I believe that the author is convincing because he first makes clear what the argument is about, he then presents both moral arguments and

Temple Grandin was born with autism she could not talk tell the age of 4. Doctors said she should be instituted but he mother said she wanted her to go to school. She was not very popular in school and did not have many friends. She went to her aunt 's farm and loved the animals so she went to school and got a Professor in animal science at Colorado university. Temple Grandin influenced livestock industry on animal behavior and welfare through her literary works including, Animal Welfare in Slaughter Plants,livestock handling and transport and Behavioral Principles of Livestock Handling.

“In 2016, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated that Americans ate an average of 54.3 pounds of beef, 92.1 pounds of chicken, and 50.4 pounds of pork, per person, per year” (Vegetarianism). Food production counts for only one of the many injustices animals face daily. Although they have been proven emotionally intelligent, mankind views these entities as subservient and continue to harm them. People around the world have created organizations that work to ameliorate the treatment of animals. As the animal rights movement nobly fights to improve the conditions of these living creatures, daily human activities and the moral values of some prolong the acceptance of animal equality.

This is where the sociological imagination comes into play. From the sociological perspective, a vegetarian diet or love for salad might be explained by one being opposed to factory farms. Factory farms are plantations where cows, chickens, turkeys, and pigs are locked in tiny cages, starved, and injected with growth hormones so the farmers can have more meat to sell (Calderone). These growth hormones can have negative effects on our health, and they have often been linked to various types of cancer (Factory Farming). Not only are factory farms incredibly cruel, but they are also unsanitary. Animals are forced to live in crowded, dirty cages. The failure of the farmers to clean animal waste can transfer a lot of bacteria to the meat that they sell, and this can lead to a lot of health problems for the consumer. In order to avoid supporting cruel and unhealthy practices like these, many members of our society choose to become

See a lot of people buying fast food because how good it tastes. Well let me tell you it is not good for your health. Why do fast food places lower their prices because they know people will buy it if it doesn’t cost that much and most people buy it cause that`s how much they can afford”.