Thursday, October 14, 2010

Reading response

Chapter 11: More Big Organic
   Summary: This chapter basically builds off the last chapter but just goes more into depth about organic foods. The author explains how he visited a chicken farm, which is less of a farm and more like a factory for animals. They say that the farm is free range where the chickens get to roam free and thats not the case. The chickens are not allowed to come outside until they are 5 weeks old. The gem to me in this chapter was how the companies lies and makes it seem like the animals are getting treated properly but they actually aren't at all. The question i have is What is the point of false advertising and lying to the customers?
Chapter 12: Polyface Farm
  Summary: Explains how he took a trip to a place called polyface farm, the main idea was to see if it was possible for a non industrial food chain to stay in business while in the twenty-first century. What was interesting was how he explained in the book Grass Farmer that he had never heard about a grass farmer or even knew what it was about. Joel Salatin built the foundation off of grass he said and not petroleum and thats how it was such a success. A good question i have for this chapter is in the ranking of farming wheres does grass farming come into place? and is it possible to make as much as a farmer growing corn would make?

1 comment:

  1. Chris -

    Some strong work on the blog - particularly liked the fast food vs greenmarket and the family food posts.

    Your reading responses fail to follow the instructions - please re-read the instructions and check a few other blogs for guidance.

    Also, please get on top of the work a bit better so that you're consistently doing all assignments on time.

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