Midwest Food We Eat Analysis

Prairie Foods’ “Complete Blueberry Pomegranate” cereal packaging violates California’s “false or misleading” advertising ban, so Prairie Foods’ motion to dismiss Sabach v. Prairie Foods, Inc. (S.D. Cal. 2016) should be denied.

Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" dives deep into the influence of corn on industrial food production. In chapter 1, Pollan makes it very clear the connections between corn production and the foods that Americans consume, like fast food. He highlights how corn, from its creation in fields to its making into processed foods and fast food, spreads through our diets. As said, in chapter 1 by Pollan When I started trying to follow the industrial food chain, the one that now feeds most of us most of the time and typically culminates, either in a supermarket or fast food meal, I expected that in my investigations would lead me to a wide variety of places, and though my journey did take me to great many states, and covered great many miles at the very end of these food changes, which is to say at the very beginning and variably, found myself, and almost exactly the same place a farm, and a farm, and a field in the American corn belt” (Pollan 17) Pollan argues that this dependence on one crop has numerous environmental and health consequences, urging readers to rethink the hidden consequences of their food

The United States of America is the world’s largest corn overproducer. With such heavy focus on corn, I would like to draw attention to a measure taken by the United States government, the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996. This act increased the amount of farm land that is meant to be used in the States for growing corn from 60 million acres to a whopping 90 million acres. Such a significant increase cannot go without some kind of effect. Writer, Michael Pollan, in his book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, discusses the instability of the US farming industry as well as the negative environmental implications corn has on us. This instability and environmental impact has given rise to movements promoting a return to more

Corn is not the ideal nutritious food. It wreaks havoc on the animal;s' digestive system and gets turned into sweeteners that makes people obese, aside from giving us an unhealthy diet. In other words, the industrial food chain that American man is sustained on is largely based on corn, whether in its direct form, fed to livestock, or processed into chemicals such as glucose, and the cheapest forms of these are high-fructose corn syrup and ethanol. The former, particularly, through a combination of biological, cultural, and political factors, appears in the cheapest and most common of foods that constitute the American diet. It is the ingredient that results in obesity, and, since it appears in the cheapest products, the ingredients that more poor, than wealthier individuals, consume.

Growing up in Nebraska I can tell you that I have ingested my fair amount of corn and corn-based products, I mean we are the Cornhuskers after all. But what is so special about corn? I ask this question because I want to know what is so special about corn and why is it in almost anything and everything we eat. America's agriculture is vast in the many types of plants that are planted and harvested every year, such as soybeans and wheat that are also used as an ingredient in many of our foods that we consume every day. When trying to answer this question I had to do some of my own investigative work, just as Pollan did when finding out all he could find out about corn. I researched the most grown grains in America, since corn is a grain, and to no surprise, it was corn but the second majorly grown crop that we Americans plant was soybeans. From there I

The food we eat and the quantity of it is what industries base their investments on; they use this to their advantage and produce more quantity than quality for us to consume, without taking into consideration the effect this might have on us or on the world as a whole. In the article “When a Crop Becomes King” written by Michael Pollan we see what the excessive use of a crop can do to our health and the environment. The vast production of products made with corn has made it the crop which is grown more than any other in the United States, but the process of adapting to the high consumption of corn came at a high cost. While corn is the easiest and cheapest substitute for sugar and animal food it is also linked to the cause of chronic diseases and serious, long-lasting damage to our ecosystems. The production of certain things is something we might not have control of but what we should have control of is our health and what better way than denying anything that we know might give us a hard time the power to do

As slaves adapted to survive they unknowingly transformed the Southern diet with the ingredients they brought with them from Africa. Southern food is based off of preservation methods. Fish, vegetables, fruits were the staples of most African people’s diets. The slaves brought to the colonies found that they could grow many of the foods that they ate in Africa. They learned about salting and frying meats and vegetables as simple methods of preservation from the Native Americans. How the food was preserved is what made it taste so good. One-pot cooking, gumbo, cornbread and hoecakes were being done out in the fields since slaves did not have breaks for lunch. Since southern food smells good while it is cooking it is thought that masters brought

Many alterations have been applied to the area that corn is grown in. The main biome that corn is grown would be grasslands. Grasslands are an extremely important biome for producing food, it was shown that approximately 90% of the food produced today contains at least one of the fifteen species that are grown in grasslands. Unfortunately, for there to be enough space for corn to be grown and harvested, native grasses must be cleared, therefore having a devastating impact on the biome. Corn is known to be the most thirsty crop to be grown, taking up almost 7,000 to 8,000 gallons of water, draining countries, that don't receive as much rain, of their groundwater. Another impact on the environment of corn production would be the excessive use of fertilizers, this is due to the little nutrients returned back to the soil. As corn is mainly used for consumption, very little plant

However, it had a huge impact on the lives both early “Ohio” civilizations, as well as later Ohioans who arrived long after the first European settlers. For the early civilizations, corn was a way to feed as many people as possible, using a smaller amount of farmland. While there were negative consequences of the use of corn for these people, the ability to feed more people, as well as transforming the social structure of these civilizations through specialization, outweighed the negative consequences. After the arrival of the Europeans, corn became the driving force of the Ohio economy. Places like the Miami Valley became places of diversity and economic and technological prominence through the leveraging of corn into other industries. For this reason, corn was a transformative introduction into the Ohio area, creating a civilizations characterized by progressive technological and social

In the educative essay “What’s Eating America,” Michael Pollan designates the history of corn, a good and healthy food if cultivated properly. This essay is very informative because it talks about American’s diet. In this essay, Pollan examines the way of growing the corn as an influential example of using the chemical fertilizers in food. Also, He complains “Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn it into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food…” (Pollan 302). While it might be very useful when used in a prudent way, in reality the usage of chemical fertilizers is higher and the farmers are feeding their corps more than it needs which affect the ecology’s system. In other words, his focus is on corn and not only does him just points out corn presence in nearly all food products; but he comes up with other matters like fossil fuels and the factories polluting the atmosphere. Thus, it’s astonishing when someone stops and thinks about how many things are composed from corn.

The main argument in this article is how it explains we as society have evolved with corn and some people think we do not need it or have not evolved. The author wants to show us how crops can grow everywhere and that we the people should

Some farmers have witnesses great benefits from transitioning their crops from wheat. One benefit has been that farmers retain more corn per acre in comparison to wheat.

In American culture, we typically center our food choices around american options such as burgers, fries, chicken fried steaks, and chicken tenders. However, I decided to seek out a food from a culture that differs than my American background. I sought out a restaurant that served and Indian cuisine and one that I wouldn’t usually try. I decided Indian for the reason that I love spice in food and the spice that the Indian culture uses in their food should really compliment the food. The restaurant that I found was called Taco Naan, which combines cultures and serves food that cater to Mexican and Indian cultures.

Between 1930’s and 1940’s, a great drought hit the southern west Great Plains. “Dryland farming on the Great Plains led to the systematic destruction of the prairie grasses.”(Congress). It affected farmers by destroying their crops. “Simply put, if farmers produced less, the prices of their crops and livestock would increase.”(Congress). In a way, the farmers were paid less. “In a time when many were out of work and tens of thousands were starving, this wastefulness was considered downright wrong.”(Congress). Without crops to feed people, people were starving. “Cotton, corn and wheat prices doubled in three years.”(Congress) Farmers approved this act.

Goods consumed by the public can be rivalrous, non-rivalrous, have excludability or not have excludability. Combinations of each of these four values can make up exactly what is a public good and how it is treated. Rivalrous can be defined as the consumption can only be used by one individual at a time and not another. The inverse is also true for this definition as non-rivalrous goods can be enjoyed by multiple individuals at once. Items that have excludability deal with ownership. Excludable items mean that an individual has control over the use of the good. Non-excludable items mean that no individual can effectively exclude individuals from use of a particular good. While private goods can be defined as something that is both rivalrous and has excludability, any other item that is not entirely private can be defined as public.