FOOD part 3

In the third assignment in Food Inc we are introduced to three different writing styles. In the chapter “Declare your Independence” , Joel Salatin wrote in a very rebellious and revolutionary like tone when he was describing all of the negative aspect of the industrialized food industry. He used angry and strong wording to convey to the audience that we are not forced to eat this industrialized food and that we have the option to “opt out” to the entire corrupted system. He compared the lack of choices of food to a “food slavery” where we should demand an” Food Emancipation Proclamation”. This is just one example of how he used vocabulary and definitions to help describe his viewpoint and ideas regarding the present food industry . He offers four strategies for his “opt out plan” ; learn to cook again, buy local foods, buy food that’s in season, and to plant a garden. I thought his description of the food industry as a fraternity was pretty funny, and was a relatively accurate description.
I found the chapter “Questions for a Farmer” very interesting considering I personally would not know what would be the qualities that I would want to ask about for the food that I eat. I thought the author did I very good and thorough job at describing the questions that the consumer should ask the farmer that he/she would want to buy from. This chapter was very basic yet informative and did a good job tying the themes together from the previous chapters.
The third chapter we were asked to read was “eating Made Simple” , by Marion Nestle. The author asks readers to reflect on what food that we east on a daily basic and how we are conditioned to choose these foods. In the section “super markets as ground zero” she describes how super markets spend so much money and time on research to see what causes consumers to buy the largest amount of food during their visit to the specific store. She goes on to describe the different food groups that the average reader would consume on a daily basis. She discusses how there is so much discrepancy between many current nutritionist’s viewpoints.