Blog Post 7

Blog Post 7

Each piece of writing concerns the change of food and the process of creating food over time. This transformation goes from when the person(s) who killed the animal or harvested the crow would eat what they had put the effort into killing/growing. Estabrook writes that tomatoes, at one point, came from northern Peru or southern Ecuador, which have perfect conditions for growing tomatoes. But since the world demanded more food products like tomatoes, these foods had to be grown in other places. For example, tomatoes began to be grown in Florida, which has a horrible climate for growing tomatoes. All this is driven by the need for sustainable, cheap food the keep the ever-growing world going. The pieces by Estabrook and Cook place heavy emphasis on the quality of life workers possess, even though they focus on two separate topics (tomatoes and chicken). Each essay talks about the exploitations of the workers- included poor conditions, low wages, physical harm, and so on. This has been caused by the modern food industry and the demand for cheap and accessibly food in more and more parts of the world. Pollan’s piece focuses on the mistreatment of animals (livestock) all around the world. He writes about diseases like salmonella, caused by birds and poor living conditions, and more. Again, these issues have all been caused by the modern practices of growing food, harvesting food, and getting the food to the consumer.