A Short Story : Grub By Dana Goodyear

If a sow bug is placed in a choice tray, and has access to decaying leaves, potatoes, grapes, and sow bug food, the sow bug will choose the decaying leaves over its other options. This hypothesis was based on research stating that a sow bug's main food source is decaying vegetation. This is the food they are accustomed to and therefore will select over the other three options which they rarely if ever would have access to.

In “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A natural history of four meals,” Michael Pollan examines American eating habits. The book is divided into three pieces. The first piece focuses on industrial farming, the second analyzes organic food, and the third discusses hunting and gathering of our own food.

This experiment was conducted on pillbugs (Armadillidiidae) from the class Malacostraca and order Isopods. These bugs were used to preform a Natural Experiment to test their response and attraction to chocolate and/or vanilla flavored chips. During the experiment, the pill-bugs will have the opportunity to choose between the two kinds of chips and the favored flavor will be noted for each bug.

In The Omnivores’ Dilemma Michael Pollen’s objective is address, educate and convince the reader by analyzing our diets. He mentions we have become oblivious to what we are eating. Sometimes we wonder where our food comes from, and what ingredients are in it. Pollan states, “we would rather eat in ignorance”(11). The underlying message here is if people know what they are eating, they might not be able to eat comfortably again. Pollan uses this message to gain the reader’s attention. Pollan creates an illustration to help the audience visualize his experience. He also implements personal anecdotes and compare & contrast techniques to effectively persuade the reader, that what they are eating is unhealthy.

Florida Atlantic University, Dept. of Psychology, Davie, FL 33314 USA [E-mail: wmckibbi@fau.edu, tshackel@fau.edu] The Omnivore’s Dilemma is the latest book by Michael Pollan, best known for his previous best‐ selling work, The Botany of Desire. Here, Pollan has crafted a well‐written and enjoyable  exploration of humans’ relationship with food. The book is written for a lay audience, but is  appreciable by all.    Pollan begins by focusing on a seemingly simple question,

Yes, eating bugs help the environment, but you might not know what type of bugs are edible. Another reason is that some bugs can give you a disease like

He writes, “What I try to do in this book is approach the dinner question as a naturalist might, using the long lenses of ecology and anthropology, as well as the shorter, more intimate lens of personal experience” (6). Pollan is not only being honest by telling his objective, he is humble by showing that he is trying to do this rather than condescendingly insisting that he is “right”. He also shows that he considers different angles when looking at this issue. By doing this, Pollan offers technical and factual explanations for the national eating disorder. He presents the argument that as omnivores, we logically are given the challenge of many choices are to what to eat. But, he does not stop at just the scientific example. He offers his own experiences in order to approach the situation from another direction. This shows the he is directly involved with the dilemma. He writes, “I hoped to shed fresh light on the way we eat now by immersing myself in the way we ate then” (8). He is taking personal initiative to actively understand what all his readers are

How much do you think about the food you choose to eat? In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan weaves through personal anecdotes, scientific studies, and thought-provoking questions about ethics and the human condition in order to force readers to think more critically about their meals. The book’s overarching theme, addressed directly and indirectly over and over again, is that America is afflicted with a “national eating disorder.” As omnivores and citizens of a highly developed nation, we are confronted with an inescapable mass of complicated information and ideas about food that we need to constantly comprehend, categorize, and evaluate, ultimately culminating in a series of choices every time we eat a meal. This information includes messages from doctors, family, and peers, from marketers and media, and from our own ideas about preferences and priorities.

How well do you know about the food you eat? Why is it so hard to choose what to eat and what to buy? Modern people can barely make choices about what is good to eat and buy unless following the expert’s advises. However, there is one man, Michael Pollan, wrote “Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, published in 2006, and he wants to persuade general public to rethink their food choices and relation with food, and provoke their awareness of eating. Pollan builds up his credibility by approaching the question through various perspectives, and by critically analyzing the issue of eating disorder. To illustrate his claims, Pollan explains his key words of his work via his narratives. He, however, does not figure out any practicable solutions to deal with the omnivore’s dilemma.

teacher once stated: “How very interesting. I thought that everyone loved the mosquito, but here, in front of all the world, you claim to

Abstract: This experiment was exploring our curiosity of sowbugs and their preferences. Our main question was about how the sowbugs natural diet can affect their preference for sodium chloride also known as table salt and glucose which is also known as sugar. The experiment involved testing how much time each sowbug spent in each substance when in a tray with both salt and sugar on opposite sides.

While this doesn’t sound exactly like a traditional “how I discovered I love insects” story and may in fact sound like quite the opposite, this is exactly the moment when an interest in entomology sparked. With

He writes a book and talks about how he enjoyed eating bugs. In was at a talk that he was giving and someone asked him if that was true. He told the audience that it was and had his sister make them believe. In this story, the author used bugs as a way of showing that it may be weird or unusual. The author makes a connection between human and animals. The bugs in the story represent that humans are superior. This man is eating bugs and this is showing that human feel they are more important than anything else. Throughout this story, the man it trying to make everyone else understand why eating bug is good, but everyone is disgusted and weirded out. He explains, that the Indians use to eating bugs to survive. That this is what that had to do. It’s easy to see that many people were very judgmental about him eating bugs. The man act as if he is better than the bugs. The man talks about the Bible and how there is a list of forbidden foods. One is flying creeping things. Even though the Bible says eating bugs is forbidden, he still eats

types of insects that are crop eaters. Especially in africa there are insects that eat all sort of crops

“It 's a bug-eat-bug world out there, Princess. One of those circle-of-life kind of things. Now, let me tell you how things are supposed to work. The sun grows the food. The ants pick the food. The grasshoppers eat the food. (A Bug’s Life, 1998)” a quote from the ring leader of the grasshoppers, Hopper, in the film A Bug’s Life (November 1998). John Lasseter’s Disney production was released in November of 1998 where it gave an overview of the world of ants and their everyday struggles. When it comes to ants, you think about their teamwork and strategic tasks; never would anyone think that any type of unethical actions were