A Little Under A Year

Heather Roger's essay Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage offers a compelling outlook on society’s excessive and

Berry begins the article by pointing out the consumer’s ignorance as they do not realize the connection they have with the agricultural cycle. Many believe that eating is an agriculture act, however, they do not associate themselves with this act because they do not have direct contact with the actual food production process. Berry explains that the reason why people think this way is because “they just buy what they want - or what they have been persuaded to want” without a second thought on the qualities and the states of the products (3). He appeals to the reader’s emotions as he describes the nature of the consumers because it demonstrates the reality of how little people nowadays care what they consume into their body. Berry further enforces his appeal on the audience’s emotions by claiming that “food is pretty much an abstract idea” to most of the urban shoppers (4). Shoppers understand that food is produced on farms, but have no knowledge on the locations of the farms, the type of farms, and the techniques that are involved in farming. This statement supports Berry’s claims on the consumer’s ignorance because it points out the important role that consumers actually play

Eighner wants to confront his audience about how wasteful we actually are. The three main ideas; what is safe to eat, scavengers vs. scroungers, and the stories told by items, all tie into Eighner’s overall theme of trying to open everyone’s eyes to how wasteful we are. Many people do not realize what they are actually throwing away because most of us have more than we need. We don’t have room in our fridge so we just throw good items away that are perfectly good. We also throw away more than just good food. Many people in America throw away practically brand new clothes instead of taking the time to go donate them at a shelter. Even I as a college student do this. You need more room so it just easier to toss it into the trash. Although it may help someone who

By disposing of out dated products, Company Q, is missing a great opportunity to create a public relations and social opportunity. Because management was concerned with lost revenue through possible fraud and theft they decided to throw away the out dated food, instead of donating to the food bank. Company Q should have been more contributive towards the needs of the community than to the how much revenue would be lost or how they couldn’t trust the employees.

“He stuck the lollipop into poor old Derby’s mouth. A moment passed, and then Derby burst into tears. Billy closed the window and hid the sticky spoon. Somebody was coming.” (Vonnegut 205)

Throughout Eighner’s essay, he utilizes various strategies to explain the process of Dumpster diving and how his personal experiences have shaped his own identity. Starting with a narrative, the author describes his passion for Dumpsters and his financial reasons for becoming a scavenger. Transitioning into a didactic tone, Eighner then defines various terms surrounding this idea of Dumpster diving and contrasts the meaning of a scavenger and scrounger. To him, scavenging is “a sound and honorable niche” (55), while scrounging is crude and demeaning. After comparing the motives of Dumpster divers with average people, he discusses various foods found in Dumpsters and the processes needed to ensure safe and healthy consumption. With a negative attitude towards ignorant college students and wasteful consumers, Eighner begins

Many consumers are not able to see where their food comes from, similarly to how the corn no longer has the information of how it was produced. The change in food production also is evident in the decline in personal nature via packaging. Two centuries ago, people were able to purchase their corn from “the farm where the corn had been grown” and most likely where they had developed a more personal linkage with the farmer on a local level. Now, the connection between the source of consumer’s food production and the consumer itself are separated by thousands of miles, lacking communication, acknowledgement, and awareness of the production process. Pollan implements something as simple as a produce “sack” to showcase the reality that modern-day consumers are denied their right to know where and how their food was developed, violating one foundation of food justice: the right to know what one is eating.

Perception and reality are two different things, reality is ‘the thing itself’ and perception is what we ‘see’ of this reality. Eighner discusses how Americans perceptions on hobos are completely wrong; as it is a reality of a lifestyle. Eighner states "From time to time I have heard a wino or hobo give some corrupted credit to the original and call them Dipsy Dumpsters." (19) As the perception people 'see'. Eigner explained that before he became homeless he began dumpster diving. As he writes about the reality of dumpster diving, he explains not everything we see is true. Eighner explains that a yogurt cup is shown an expiration date and people have the need to throw it out because it says that date and it's our perception to throw it out when the reality is that it's still good after the expiration date. (22)

The author focuses on two specific points to persuade the audience of the benefits of using leftovers. First,

On March 5th, 2016, Athletics Australia Relays Coach Charlie Control witnessed a plastic Tupperware container fall out of a team issued bag while he was loading the bags into a car after the IAAF Melbourne World Challenge Meet. The four bags belonged to members of the Australian women’s 4x100m relay team: Rebecca Racing, Felicity Fast,

The tangerine orange glow of the Tootsie Pop’s curled and slightly crinkled wrapping heavily inscribed by the same name in clear, bolded bubbly font invites my attention. While slowly unraveling the carefully prepared smooth plastic, a familiar aroma of overwhelming citrus invades my nostrils. A swirling amber elliptical interrupted by a jutting horizontal ring around the surface married with a thickly rolled paper stick stares back at me in all it’s splendor. Encapsulated in its center is a hidden chocolate treasure sealed away by the hard candy shell. When the Tootsie Pop settles on my tongue, it awakes all my taste buds to absorb the rich, sweet, and savory qualities of the fruity sweet. Having another look I notice the unnatural shine of

Having made an astonishing short film that shows in extraordinary subtle element the path in which sticky confections are made. Kneepkens starts the footage in opposite, by demonstrating what we’ve all come to know and love as a completed sticky treat just before we pop it into our mouths and appreciate the sweet vibe of prepared sugar going down the portal. As the footage unrolls, the viewer soon comes to find the confection’s bloody

On the contrary, James E. has concluded that the locavore movement causes problems like “industrialized food.” The academic study in 2006 is the ecological matter about a Londoner buying a lamb addressed from New Zealand rather than purchasing lamb brought up in the UK, is said to be absurd if only considering “food-miles.” Paul Roberts claims that this has lead to casting a bright spotlight on the questionable segments of the “modern food economy.” Based on the ideas of Paul, by reason of the “long-distance food shipments promote profligate fuel use[,] exploitation of cheap labour” this has resulted in the rise of “reliance” on foods shipped from halfway round the world.

When you think of lunch bags, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? You’re probably thinking of a bag made of plastic and vinyl, used to store food. Although, you may be surprised to know that that’s not what they started out as. Kids first brought their lunches wrapped in a cloth or wrapped in oiled paper, then put in a wooden box. After that, the “lunch bag” became a “lunch tin”. Then, the year of 1950 came and a company called “Aladdin industries” came out with a lunch box. Then in the 1990’s the came out with a plastic, vinyl lunch bag. You may think of a lunch bag as a boring, little, sack that encompasses your food. Although, they give children much joy. Some kids would do anything to get a lunch box with their favorite character

Thinking in this product makes me want to have some of it. The first impression people might have when they see this dessert is that it might be an expensive and luxurious product because of its embellished packaging. It can be identified by the cute design of the box due to the fact that on the left of the box there is a sumptuous ribbon that its background color is a combination between dark cinnamon and lightly caramel, furthermore, the ribbon has the brand´s name sketched all around it. The theme color of the whole box is pearly white what makes the letters of the brand, written on the top of the box, stand out in a bright gold. Moreover, bellow the ribbon there is a little description in French about the glamorous product and next to it a small window made of transparent plastic where the small pieces of the product are shown to the public. The most interesting thing comes after its purchase. I start feeling the anxiety when it is time to open this fancy box because as