ARCHIVE - Visualizing Ecology - Week 7: Omnivore&#039;s Dilemma, pp. 185-411 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/taxonomy/term/24/0 en ARCHIVE - henry browne week 7 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-browne-week-7 <p style="line-height: 200%" class="MsoNormal">Henry Browne</p> <p style="line-height: 200%" class="MsoNormal">Omnivores dilemma pt2</p> <p style="line-height: 200%" class="MsoNormal">The chapter on fungus immediately grabs my attention by pointing out how humans take great joy in performing primal necessities , although today they usually have no connection to our survival. This immediately made me reflect on my own behavior and why this might be. Despite our lives I think these needs to perform survival tasks is wired into our brains and if necessity doesn’t force us into realizing this we at least get gratification out of it. This kind of thinking would explain the dedication of mushroom hunters, since Mushrooms are one of the edibles that can be largely harvested from nature without propagation this kind of gathering seems like it would strike the most primal nerve. Success depending on skill and timing and beating out your competitors. Treasure hunting, going out into the woods and coming back rich or broke depending on your savvy and determination. The limitless possibilities or disappointments.</p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-browne-week-7">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-browne-week-7#comment Week 7: Omnivore's Dilemma, pp. 185-411 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:47:27 -0800 brohen24 420 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Aileen Milliman - Week 7 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/aileen-milliman-week-7 <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">“&#39;You have just dined,&#39; Emerson once wrote, &#39;and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.&#39;” (Pollan 227).</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br /> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> The generally detached view of slaughterhouses in America is disturbing because it separates the consumers from the reality of their choices. Since food is what fuels the body and eventually makes up one&#39;s own flesh, it should not be as impersonal as it has become. Most people, happily eating a cheeseburger at McDonald&#39;s, would not give a thought to where the food came from or what it came from. This detachment is necessary for factory farms to keep their profits up and avoid any sort of scandal. Luckily for the factory farms, most people do not even care to know because it might hinder the blissful ignorance of their existence as they blindly suck the planet dry. After Pollan&#39;s close encounter in the slaughtering process, he still proclaims repeatedly to still be a meat-eater. As morally damaging as he describes his experiences, he continues to indulge in, and therefor facilitate, this industry when he goes to McDonald&#39;s with his family. People tend to think that if they do not know of the dangers of factory farms, or if they are not employed by them, then they are completely removed from the situation. In reality, they are part of the public demand that supports this industry and encourages its growth. Once one accepts that meat is not born in the supermarket, then it might follow that one might have to feel guilty for their actions. The price sticker on roast beef does not reflect the huge government corn subsidies that make its current production possible. It also does not include the environmental impacts of the factory farm the cows were raised on, or the amount of fossil fuel that goes into its processing. Emerson reminds us that elected ignorance does not remove responsibility, and that humans need to start being held accountable for their actions and impact. </p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/aileen-milliman-week-7">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/aileen-milliman-week-7#comment Week 7: Omnivore's Dilemma, pp. 185-411 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:05:39 -0800 milail09 409 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Kruger, david week 7 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/kruger-david-week-7 <p class="MsoNormal">“This productivity means Joel’s pastures will like his woodlots, remove thousands of pounds of carbon from the atmosphere each year…In fact grassing over that portion of the world’s cropland now being used to grow grain to feed ruminants would offset fossil fuel emissions appreciably…equivalent of taking four million cars off the road.” – pg 198</p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-indent: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal">Some people don’t want the government to subsidize environmental restoration because they feel that they’re tax dollars wouldn’t be helping them. What if the government subsidized both farms and the environment? The problem is that enacting legislation to give farmers the initiative in producing eco-restorative products would no doubt result in the loss of America’s throne in the world food market. Once farming looses it scope of commodity the government wants nothing to do with it. <span> </span>The USDA inspector views the pastoral narrative of small, local and healthy meet production as a “waste of time.” (pg. 246)</p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/kruger-david-week-7">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/kruger-david-week-7#comment Week 7: Omnivore's Dilemma, pp. 185-411 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:49:29 -0800 krudav10 382 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Amanda Hakan wk7 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk7 <p class="MsoNormal">“Dr. John Harvey Kellogg persuaded great numbers of the country’s most affluent and best educated to pay good money to sign themselves into his legendary nutty sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan, where they submitted to a regime that included all-grape diets and almost hourly enemas (Pg.299).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-indent: 48px" class="MsoNormal">Let me jus start by saying that anyone in their right mind would realize that a strict diet of eating only grapes and having hourly enemas would be a joke…or so you would think. As Michael Pollan said, John Harvey Kellogg convinced our country’s “most affluent and best educated” to pay ridiculous amounts of money to participate in a mass-weight loss. I find it really depressing that our country is so involved with not only self-image and losing weight but media and pop-culture. They are so vulnerable and easily persuaded. Just because someone has a Dr. written in front of their name does not make them any more credible to write a book and make a strict diet of meat and cheeses. When the Atkins diet was introduced to our country it was an explosion of anti-carbohydrates. No one ate anything with starch, basically confined to only meat and cheeses. </p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk7">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk7#comment Week 7: Omnivore's Dilemma, pp. 185-411 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:49:11 -0800 hakama16 374 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter