Killing a Chicken
Peter: It’s about a farmer who kills chickens to make a living and give it to food companies Sydney: It is about grass diets for cows and how the farmers killed the chickens for a living Sierra: It’s about food companies and how the farmers give their chickens to them to make money Olivia: It is about how the farmers kill the chickens to make money and their cows grass diets Pollan starts off the Pastoral Grass portion of the book describing his experience with working on a farm for seven days. He talks about how he helped with the stacks of hay and how the dust from them filled his lungs and made him very tired from the long days on the field. Peter says, “If I had to haul hay bales all day I would be dead in the first 15 minutes of doing it.” Pollan then goes to another experience he had at Whole Foods. He says in so many words that consumers are being lied to because they are willing to pay more to hear a good story on the labels of their food. He also states that the foods are actually synthetic and have chemicals in them. “It’s not good that they are lying to us.” says Sierra. So basically what you read on the labels is not the full truth or not the truth at all. There are many things that producers can do to trick it’s consumers whether it’s lying on a label or altering the price. We learned that organic foods originally began with hippies. “That’s so rad dude.” says Olivia. “Most of the book relates to our healthy food diets prompt. Overall we like the The Omnivore’s Dilemma but the author drags out concepts too long. If he didn’t drag it out for so long we would like the book. If we could go back to when we were able to choose our book we would have chosen a different one because ours was about 200 pages longer than the required amount that the book was required to be. |