Omnivores Dilemma part 1
Pg. 1- What Should We Have For Dinner? “How did we ever get to a point where we need
investigative journalists to tell us where our food comes from and nutritionists to determine the
dinner menu?”
Well long ago many people had an idea of where food came from may grew their own food and today many of us don't do that anymore. From this of course we changed lifestyle of eating. In the book an example is bread it was one day just gone and everyone just changed their lifestyle of eating.
Pg. 5- “Certainly the extraordinary abundance of food in America complicates the whole
problem of choice”
“Americans have never had a single, strong, stable culinary tradition to guide us”
-This means that America not once had a common traditional food guideline for everyone. Their is so many different backgrounds and cultures that everyone just follows their own culture food values just like the book had stated.
Pg. 10- “By replacing solar energy with fossil fuel, by raising millions of food animals in close
confinement, by feeding ourselves those animals foods they never evolved to eat, and by feeding
ourselves foods far more novel than we even realize, we are taking risks with our health and the
health of the natural world that are unprecedented.”
-The actions we are taking is not benefiting us. We are taking all the wrong turns like not using solar energy but instead using fossil fuel that hurts out air and bodies and health. This means that all of the actions were taking is risking our lives and choices. Who knows if later on their would be clean enough for us to ave something fresh again in our system.
Pg. 10- “Our eating also constitutes a relationship with dozens of other species- plants, animals
and fungi- with which we have co-evolved to the point where our fates are deeply entwined.”
-We have not only disturbed the life in agriculture but in other plants and animals, and the book explain how these animals have had to adapt to the way we desire. This surprised me because i believe that they don't have to adapt to us we have to adapt to them due to the fact that many are endangered or threatened.
Industrial Corn- One: The Plant- Corn’s Conquest
Pg. 17- “Except for the salt and a handful of synthetic food additives, every edible item in the
supermarket is a link in a food chain that beings with a particular plant growing in a specific
patch of soil (or, more seldom, stretch of sea) somewhere on earth.”
-This portion can mean that every animal is linked every aspect of life can be linked. We use one resource that another animal or plants uses and if we destroy it the other animal can die or become extinct or adapt to something else which can take a very long process. Everything can be processed but it all came from something that is linked to everything else we eat and consume.
Pg. 18-19- “There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and
more than a quarter of them now contain corn.” Make a collage- showing the items that are
made of corn in the average American supermarket.
Pg. 19- Why are Mexicans (descendents of the Mayans) referred to as “the corn people”?
-They have corn in their daily eating routine and have depended on it for over 9 thousand years
Pg. 21- What is the C-4 trick by plants?
-it represents an important economy or the plant,giving it an advantage, especially in areas where water is scarce and temperatures are high
Pg. 22- What does the higher ratio of Carbon 13 (isotope) to Carbon 12 in a person’s body tell
us?
-This tells us that the person with the higher ratio have had more corn consumed in there body than the other
Pg. 22- How much wheat flour do we eat compared to corn flour? (Americans)
The Rise of Zea Mays
-they eat 114 pounds compared to 11 pounds
Pg. 23- Explain why some people regard agriculture as a brilliant evolutionary strategy on the
part of plants and animals?
-they get us to advance their interest
-by evolving certain traits we happen to regard as desreable, these species got themselves noticed by the one mammal in a position not only to spread their genes around the world, but to remake vast swaths of that world in the image of the plants preferred habitat
Pg. 24- What was the “biotic army” that the white man brought to the new world?
-associate species -cattles, apples, wheat, pigs, weeds and microbes, and whenever possible helped them to displace the native plants and animals allied with the Indian
Pg. 25- Explain how corn won over the wheat people because of its versatility.
it could of been planted in harsher weather and produced more.
-it supplied with ready to it vegetables and storable grain, a source of fiber, and animal feed
Married to Man
Pg. 26- Why is corn considered to be “married to man”?
-maybe because both the corn depends on us as much as we depend on it because alone it would disappear
in a few years
Corn Sex
Pg. 30- For to prosper in the industrial food chain to the extent it has, corn has to acquire several
improbable new tricks- What did corn have to do?
-adapt not just to humans but machines
-did by learning to grow as upright,stiff stalked, and uniform a soldier,
-multiply its yield
-develop appetite for fossil fuel
-tolerance for various synthetic chemicals
investigative journalists to tell us where our food comes from and nutritionists to determine the
dinner menu?”
Well long ago many people had an idea of where food came from may grew their own food and today many of us don't do that anymore. From this of course we changed lifestyle of eating. In the book an example is bread it was one day just gone and everyone just changed their lifestyle of eating.
Pg. 5- “Certainly the extraordinary abundance of food in America complicates the whole
problem of choice”
“Americans have never had a single, strong, stable culinary tradition to guide us”
-This means that America not once had a common traditional food guideline for everyone. Their is so many different backgrounds and cultures that everyone just follows their own culture food values just like the book had stated.
Pg. 10- “By replacing solar energy with fossil fuel, by raising millions of food animals in close
confinement, by feeding ourselves those animals foods they never evolved to eat, and by feeding
ourselves foods far more novel than we even realize, we are taking risks with our health and the
health of the natural world that are unprecedented.”
-The actions we are taking is not benefiting us. We are taking all the wrong turns like not using solar energy but instead using fossil fuel that hurts out air and bodies and health. This means that all of the actions were taking is risking our lives and choices. Who knows if later on their would be clean enough for us to ave something fresh again in our system.
Pg. 10- “Our eating also constitutes a relationship with dozens of other species- plants, animals
and fungi- with which we have co-evolved to the point where our fates are deeply entwined.”
-We have not only disturbed the life in agriculture but in other plants and animals, and the book explain how these animals have had to adapt to the way we desire. This surprised me because i believe that they don't have to adapt to us we have to adapt to them due to the fact that many are endangered or threatened.
Industrial Corn- One: The Plant- Corn’s Conquest
Pg. 17- “Except for the salt and a handful of synthetic food additives, every edible item in the
supermarket is a link in a food chain that beings with a particular plant growing in a specific
patch of soil (or, more seldom, stretch of sea) somewhere on earth.”
-This portion can mean that every animal is linked every aspect of life can be linked. We use one resource that another animal or plants uses and if we destroy it the other animal can die or become extinct or adapt to something else which can take a very long process. Everything can be processed but it all came from something that is linked to everything else we eat and consume.
Pg. 18-19- “There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and
more than a quarter of them now contain corn.” Make a collage- showing the items that are
made of corn in the average American supermarket.
Pg. 19- Why are Mexicans (descendents of the Mayans) referred to as “the corn people”?
-They have corn in their daily eating routine and have depended on it for over 9 thousand years
Pg. 21- What is the C-4 trick by plants?
-it represents an important economy or the plant,giving it an advantage, especially in areas where water is scarce and temperatures are high
Pg. 22- What does the higher ratio of Carbon 13 (isotope) to Carbon 12 in a person’s body tell
us?
-This tells us that the person with the higher ratio have had more corn consumed in there body than the other
Pg. 22- How much wheat flour do we eat compared to corn flour? (Americans)
The Rise of Zea Mays
-they eat 114 pounds compared to 11 pounds
Pg. 23- Explain why some people regard agriculture as a brilliant evolutionary strategy on the
part of plants and animals?
-they get us to advance their interest
-by evolving certain traits we happen to regard as desreable, these species got themselves noticed by the one mammal in a position not only to spread their genes around the world, but to remake vast swaths of that world in the image of the plants preferred habitat
Pg. 24- What was the “biotic army” that the white man brought to the new world?
-associate species -cattles, apples, wheat, pigs, weeds and microbes, and whenever possible helped them to displace the native plants and animals allied with the Indian
Pg. 25- Explain how corn won over the wheat people because of its versatility.
it could of been planted in harsher weather and produced more.
-it supplied with ready to it vegetables and storable grain, a source of fiber, and animal feed
Married to Man
Pg. 26- Why is corn considered to be “married to man”?
-maybe because both the corn depends on us as much as we depend on it because alone it would disappear
in a few years
Corn Sex
Pg. 30- For to prosper in the industrial food chain to the extent it has, corn has to acquire several
improbable new tricks- What did corn have to do?
-adapt not just to humans but machines
-did by learning to grow as upright,stiff stalked, and uniform a soldier,
-multiply its yield
-develop appetite for fossil fuel
-tolerance for various synthetic chemicals
Page 18-19 Corn items)