CHAPTER 2

Our food industry has become industrialized, which means some of our foods are not being produced naturally. It reminds me of the birthing process, how doctors induce the labor instead of waiting for the baby to be born when it is ready to. In farms, The farmers are the doctors and the food growing is the babies. By technology increasing, there are always pros and cons. One of many pro's is that, "One bushels holds 56 pounds of kernels, so that slightly more ten thousand pounds of food per acre; The field George and i planted that day would produce 1.8 million pounds of corn. Not bad for a day's work sitting down."(36) The natural beauty of growing farms has been destroyed by these huge tractors. The benefits from the tractors is that it produces more corn but the downfall is many people are losing out jobs, making the population decrease and animals. But like everyone says, It's all about the money. With The machines, "One man can handle a lot more acreage by himself when it's plants in monoculture, and without animals to care for he can take the weekend off, and even think about spending the winter in Florida."(40). It's less time, More money. With oil machines taking over, Not only does it take less time, But it also can cause pollution, Which can harm many.

If we continue to industrialize, our foods will continue to have many new substances. In our society i have very much doubt that everyone truly knows that corn has ammonium Nitrate, The stuff used in bombs. Not that it is harms us, but it's the simple fact of the lack of knowledge. Instead of writing brief ingredients of things we know, They need to write it ALL, the point of ingredients is to show what is in the food and in our society we are being half lied too with out knowing. The remaining questions i still have is, what other chemical substances are in our food that can harm us? How come stores or who ever makes the carton show ALL ingredients? Is it because the society is afraid to really let us know what we are eating and the outcome that can be? Also how will food taste with out no type of corn? Is it really the essential to foods?

RESPONSE TO OTHERS:

KATE-

I agree with everything that you are saying. If machines keep taking over, there would be no jobs and if they keep producing corn, then we will run low on food supply.

GAVIN-
I FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT HOW MUCH CORN CAN THE FIELDS FEED. WHEN POLLAN SAID 129 PEOPLE AND THEN SWITCHED UP THE NUMBERS OF HOW MUCH THEY CAN PRODUCE, I NOW FEEL AS IF HE IS JUST PUTTING HIS OWN OPINIONS INTO THE BOOK.