5 Sources of Research

Articles- 1)The Dirty Dozen by Tracey Rohland
               http://www.downtoearth.org/
              2) http://www.watersystemcouncil.org/
              3) http://www.truthinlabeling.org/
           * This breaks down what exactly pesticides are and it helps me to undertsand how it affects the
               human body. It also breaks down the form and how they are used in argriculture.
Books- 1)W.D. Lynch- " Poisonous Metals on Sprayed Fruits and Vegetables"
             2) Fast Food Nation- Pg. 264 (eggs)
                 Pg.204 (Milk Production)

feedback on "FOOD INC."

Today in professor McCormick's class we watched we a documentary on the

food industry called "FOOD INC". I found it very interesting and it made alot of

good points. It also made me thing about how I eat and my diet and made me

think if i should change some things. Some of the farmers who are paid to do

what they do i wonder how they feel about being part of such an organization.

Personally I don't think I could live with doing that for the rest of my life . I

would feel some kind of guilt knowing I was doing such a thing to animals and

also causing a disruption to the healthn of humans. Being enslaved to a

company in this situation to me is like being obligated to kill people or cause

diseases and extreme health problems. One thing I didnt know is that chickens

grow in about 3 months or so and with they're method it grows in about 49

days. I don't care how much money I would get I wouldn't want to be enslaved

by a company to do wrong and harm the health of animlas and humans. I felt

sorry for the mother who lost her child. I would have so mcuh anger for the

people who produce contaminated fod not caring who it harmed. I admire her

for trying to fight for her right because of what happened to her son. My

favorite person from the documentary wwas the farmer who's name i can't

recall but he raised his animals naturally. I think he was a strong person he

tried his best to keep his farm open and functioning well. He had a desire to

produced  good and healthy food not only for him but for the people who

brought from him.He felt good about what he was doing and that it was the

right thing whichi do agree. Even though companies and others tried to shut

him downhe didnt let that phase him. He believed in eating right and if we are

to eat meat to make sure it was good enough to intake. This film also insipired

me to encourage others to eat better for themsleves watch what they ptu into

their bodies. As for me i wwill watch my diet more because after watching that

it turned my mind form eating meat. This also helped me to be wise of what

goes on in this food industry because who knows  what's next.

culture/heritage essay

Natalie Grimes

3/20/11

ENG 101

Professor McCormick

            In the small island of Barbados around the 1900”s life was simple and sweet.

As we know this was a traditional era and a lot of foods we’re prepared from

natural grown fruits and vegetables. One of the most made dishes is a desert called

black cake. My family is still known to make it today even though the ingredients

are slightly different. In writing this essay I will further explain the difference

between the two and deeper into the origin of the ingredients used.

           

            During big holidays and such as weddings, Christmas and Easter this cake is

made as a traditional desert. The cake’s main ingredients is grounded up fruits like

cherries, raisins, prunes currents, mixed peel(orange rind) and are fermented over

time. Usually my grandmother would ferment them over the year and for the

holidays she would use it for the cake. The fruits we’re grown fresh from my trees

in the back yard or grown in the fields. Fruits today are not as fresh and are sprayed

with pesticides and chemicals to keep them “fresh” but all the chemicals do is ruin

the natural structure and strip them from their natural being. Some fruits are a lot

grown in labs and made are made from replicas. There are some factories that clone

fruits and of course when you do that the fruits produced become less healthy and

they sell them everyday in supermarkets and some people have no clue what they

are in taking into their bodies.

            Other ingredients such as butter and sugar we’re mixed into the fruit. Of

course one of the main ingredients in butter is milk. Milk was processed in a factory

called Pine Hill Diary which had their own pasteurized cows to produce the milk. At

another factory called Robert’s manufacturing the butter was produced using palm

tree butter and mellow cream. In this day in age cows are put in intensive

confinement which leaves them unable to nurse their young and be free. Instead of

being treated like animals they are mostly like milk machines.

According to David Goldstein, Helen Pearson, U.S. department of

agriculture and U.S. Environmental protection Agency the cows “are

genetically manipulated and pumped full of antibiotics and hormones that

cause them to produce more milk”. Being that humans consume their milk

they expose themselves to a higher risk of heart disease,  diabetes and

cancer. Sugar was originally made from sugar cane. When it was processed

into crystal form it comes out as brown sugar because it still contained the

natural minerals unlike white sugar. White sugar is stripped of the sugar cane syrup

also known as molasses which makes the brown sugar crystals the color that they

are. Molasses contains the natural vitamins and minerals that the body needs so it

makes brown sugar more of a healthy choice.

            Eggs are also an ingredient in any cake. My mother and her mother rose

their own chickens back then. Because of what they we’re fed things like grain,

broken corn and scratch grain which kept them healthy so their eggs we’re produced

more nutritious. In the U.S. as well as cows, chickens are also injected with

hormones to fatten them up which give us who buy the chicken more meat.

Hormones are produced in animals and humans which control growth, development

and reproduction. A certain hormone that is produced by women but when used too

much of it causes breast and vaginal cancer. Not natural estrogen but synthetic

estrogen was used to increase the size of cows and poultry in could tamper with the

eggs that are produced.

            I think that around this time period people had a healthier diet especially

when eating meat. If the animals ate healthy then whatever nutrients from the meat

would plus their natural protein would supply them with what they need for health.

One of the biggest reasons animals are injected with certain hormones is because

there diary and meat industries are also looking for profit. Even the eggs are rushed

to be laid so the chicken can be slaughtered quicker and sold.

            This recipe is one of the most popular in my mom’s country. It was used for

so many holidays and even as a regular treat. Being raised in that time and having

experience the natural way things we’re made and how certain foods and ingredients

come together to make something good and valuable was always talked about my

family. Generation after generation made this desert even though today things are

just a little different nothing beats the old school.