Reading Response

Chapter 17: My Grass Fed Meal
   Summary: He explains the difference between eggs on the farm and the eggs in the grocery store. he said the main difference was the yolk he claimed it was more thicker. The main idea was eating locally basically eating the food that he is around. he made a meal that he has made several times before with the same ingredients but from the grocery. Even though the ingredients are the same he feels better because the chickens spent their lives outside instead of inside and roamed the pastures. All the animals ate grass not grain or corn. Gem What he said was very interesting he explained that he might of been eating the same meal but to know the animals were treated better he felt better eating the food he made. Question How come all farmers don't treat their animals like polyface farm does what do they gain or lose from it?
Chapter 18: The Forest
   Summary: The last meal he wanted to have was a meal that incorporated foods that he hunted and gathered. What he worried about was the scary foods out there like the poisonous berries and mushrooms. Hunting is apart of the first food chain and even though we cant bring back that life style it is much more easier then what most americans do today for food. It took 17 hours a week to get the food that was necessary while Americans use up to 40 hours or more to get food etc. Gem Only around 100 of nearly 10,000 different kinds of mushroom, just 1 percent are safe to eat. Question If hunting and gathering was brought back would it be easier to do in this day and age or harder?