Food Supplies: Article Analysis

1. Read Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" (pp. 32 - 42) and Sherman Alexie's "Flight Patterns" (pp. 54 - 67).

Recent audit of Capital Food Supplies’ internal control revealed a significant problem—accounting duties were not segregated among employees. The ill-founded duty allocation constrains your company’s future development.

Hunger is a big social issue facing America today. According to (“Do Something.com”) 1 out of 6 people face hunger in the US. Also 49 Million Americans Struggle to put food on the table. America is the best country in world, we shouldn’t have so many people hungry. Many people have thought of fixing this problem but one company has found a way to help fix this problem, this company is Feeding America. They have been giving people food since 1979. They’ve helped out 46 million Americans. ( feedingamerica.org )

The current American system of grain-fed cattle consumes a disproportionately large amount of resources per yield. One has to be keen in distinguishing “grain-fed cattle” from “pasture-fed cattle” also known as “cattle-razing” which many experts have surmised is a more efficient use of marginal land. Research conducted by Cornell University’s David Pimentel revealed that animal protein production requires more than eight times as much fossil-fuel energy than production of plant protein while yielding animal protein that is only 1.4 times more nutritious for humans than the comparable amount of plant protein (Pimentel, 1997). Pimentel’s analysis also showed that grain-fed beef production necessitates 100,000 liters of water for every kilogram of food. Raising broiler chickens consumes about 3,500 liters of water to make a kilogram of meat. In comparison, soybean production uses 2,000 liters for kilogram of food produced; wheat, 900; rice, 1,912; and potatoes, 500 liters. Effectively, grain-fed livestock is a largely ineffective, costly, and a non-sustainable means of producing animal

In the article “ Warming world is a threat to the world’s food supplies,” CCPA Monitor writer John Vidal (2013) explains that climate change affects food supplies and triggers a domino effect in the world, such as economy, policy, environment, and agriculture. The writer also indicates most vulnerable people are easily affected by climate change, as the poor people and children and the number of those people still rising. There will be up to 2 billion more people to be fed by 2050. According to the author, climate change will cause crop shortages and price increases, that government are actively adjusting countermeasure to the issues (Vidal, 2013).

We live in an age in which we have come to expect everything to be instantaneously at our fingertips. We live in an age of instant coffee, instant tea, and even instant mashed potatoes. We can walk down the street at 5 in the morning and get a gallon of milk or even a weeks worth of groceries at our discretion. Even though it is great that food is now readily available at all times, this convenience comes at a price, for both the producer and the consumer. Farmers are cheated out of money and are slaves to big business, workers and animals are mistreated. And, because food now comes at a low cost, it has become cheaper quality and therefore potentially dangerous to the consumer’s health. These problems surrounding the ethics and the

The carrying capacity is based off of food, space, water and other needs to survive in their habitat. It is constantly changing over time. An example of the carrying capacity in an environment is stated in Garrett Hardin’s essay, Moral Implications of Cultural Carrying Capacity. In this essay, he writes how Angel island in San Francisco Bay was overpopulated with deer since there was no predators. Since there were no predators the deer reproduced rapidly which lead to overpopulation and exceeded the carrying capacity of that area. The deer were becoming starved and they destroyed the land because of the trampled soil. The solution to the overpopulated deer was that they transported the deers to other areas which were suitable for them to live in. The problem with that solution was that it was very costly and nobody wanted to pay for the deers to be transported.

They inject all of those chemicals to make the chicken bigger but that’s hurting us and all the little kids out there for their future. It may cause heart diseases and at a point when we have to take so many pills to get better. On Netflix there’s a documentary that came out this year called ‘What the Health’. He also talks about meat causes cancer. He interviewed three people who were sick with cancer and they all went to many doctors to get better but they just receive pills to take and hope for their best. The guy in the video tells them to stop taking the pills, stop eating process meat, try to exercise and he’ll come back in two weeks to see how they are. When that day came those three people he interviewed looked so much healthier and had so much energy. Not eating meat may cause a different in us and a longer life because we are hurting animals by killing them but really they are killing us.

In the society today, most people eat more of organic food to food produced with chemicals. This means people rely on products that are 100 percent natural. One of the most natural food eaten by Americans is meat. As a matter of fact, most of the meat eaten today originates from cattle. To make maters worst, it has issues when it comes to production. In most feed yards, cattle’s are fed grain to grow fatter and bigger before being slaughtered, the conditions are terrible and horrifying. Thing brought up a lot of questions within me. I wondered why cattle’s deviated from eating grass to corn and why they did? Do the cattle’s suffer from infection after eating the corn? Should human be bothered about the way the cattle’s are grown? Is it necessary

The Production of meat in the United States and Argentina is a huge commodity to both of the countries development, because both countries ranked in the top five meat consumption list according to Forbes. The idea that food production occurs mainly in less developed countries is contradictory, according to the rankings of the top food producers in the world. Looking at specific countries and comparing the top three development indicators is an effective way of showing development because it categorizes life expectancy, education, gross national income, and adds a fourth dimension in carbon emissions. Food production is said to negatively affect a countries development but this statement can be proven false by evaluating two specific

Food demand has been grown which creates a challenge to food availability and access. Food production must expand to balance supply with growing demand, and food has to move efficiently from production to consumption site. Importantly, demand for locally-grown food in the United States has also increased sharply which makes the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) implement regional and local food systems for working with farmers, wholesalers, shippers, processors, and retailers. To assess the implications of significantly increasing the role of locally produced foods in satisfying existing consumer demand, the article, optimal wholesale facilities location within the fruit and vegetables supply

In the food industry you have to be careful how you close. This product is going to be passed on to the final consumer and the person you are selling to has to be sure that they will enjoy it or risk loosing their own customers. When John was closing he seemed to follow a pattern. He would make sure he addressed any of their objections that they may have concerning closing the sale and then he would ask if they had any questions and if not if they would like to place an order. After this he would just sit quietly and wait for them to speak. During this period of time he would lean back in his chair arms open and legs uncrossed with a smile on his face almost like he was watching television not waiting to see if he was going to get a new client or loose a possible one. There was not a trace of nerves on him he seemed to be the picture of confidence.

The CDC states that 23,000 people die each year because of medicated meat products. Would you really know the difference between medicated and not medicated meat? Could you taste it? Could you see? This is the questions the Veterinary Feed Directive or (VFD) has been trying to solve. Throughout this speech, I will inform you about the new act placed on today's producers.

animals in society is not sustainable and presents an unprecedented level of risk to public health and damage to the economy throughout an unnecessary process of harm to the animals raised as food. The term for this would be the existence of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO’s). Production has shifted from smaller, family-owned farms to large farms that often have corporate contracts. Most meat and dairy products now are produced on large farms with single species buildings or open-air pens. In the agricultural business, livestock is becoming demanded more and more by large corporations, and when the focus is placed on mass production, the methods are raising animals in humane mannerisms quickly degraded. If present trends continue, meat production is predicted to double between the turn of the 21st century and 2050. Animals are being raised in small, crowded areas for the reason that it is not expensive and the only concern is for them to be fat and quickly fed to consumers.

All populations of species are limited to a specific number, called its carrying capacity, which refers to the ability of an ecosystem to support their needs. Once a population grows to the point where it extends past the limit, the environment no longer has the capacity to support them and individuals must die to stabilize the population. Humans are no exception to this rule, as their populations are constrained by such density dependent factors as the availability of food, land, and other resources. Growth in the human population in particular, profoundly worsens the effect on the environment as well, based on the IPAT equation which states that population directly contributes to environmental impact. With the rapid growth that the human population is undergoing, researchers predict that humanity is overshooting their carrying capacity and will soon face a collapse; however, the ability to use technology to efficiently maximize resource allocation while minimizing environmental impact raises a debate of whether or not humans will be able to continue living as they are now.