post #7

Dayuan Zhao

WRIT-1133-27 MWF 12-2

Prof. Eric Leake

05/07/12

Problem about Food Produce

       According to An Animal's Place which is written by Michael Pollan, he uses some examples to illustrate the mutually beneficial with people and livestock, such as dairy cow, they can provide milk and dairy to us, we get some benefit from them, domestication and domestic animals can be regard as an exchange of benefit, because we also need to build some shelter or dormitory for those cows. So, we can get the necessary nutrition, they can able to live.

       Second article Tomatoland which is written by Estabrook is talking about different tomato in different time periods or places of origin. The author compares some different tomatoes which from different places, those tomatoes taste and exterior have some huge difference. He also uses the tomatoes in 1960s to compare with the tomatoes what we eat now. In short, different places and time can influent crop’s shape in a huge way.

       Last article is Cook’s infographic Fowl Thouble. The author talks about the harmless broiler chicken in North America. Nowadays, the demand for the broiler chicken is much more than past, so the workers who in charge of kill chickens are in a more danger environment now. They have to wearing a very heavy protective clothing to protect them exempt the infringement form the bacteria. The corpses are really harmed for workers’ health and the working condition is worse, so there are less people like to work in the chicken plants in the U.S.