chapter 3 of Omnivore's Dilemma

In chapter three what i found interesting was clueless we are when how our food is handled and how different our care for our food is from other countries. I was surprise to read that they dropped the corn onto the ground, "floating in the puddles of rainwater, pancaked on the steel rails"(p.58). I would've thought farmers would care more for the food, since they're giving it away to stores were millions of people are buying them. This also shows how different we are from other countries, in Mexico you do onto leave corn on the ground "it is considered almost sacrilegious", and back then the Aztec never left corn on the ground in fear that god himself would punished them. yet here we are putting food we put in our mouth, on the ground, and yet we're always told to never eat things that been on the floor, kind of ironic really. This kind of makes me almost unsure of my food, i know we clean the food, but still to know they've been on the floor all dirty, give me an unpleasant feeling. How can be sure our food is safe to eat? how can farmers just be so careless with food? when were thought since we're little not to be wasteful.




to vincent - I honest think farmers should go back to go fashion farming when everything was done by hands, and with no chemicals, all natural. People now a days would do anything for money, evening if it means affecting what we eat. and i agree with the line "This shows how even the lowest food group as in corn affects the society highly when in trouble", when trouble hits, it hit everybody and everything, its like the domino affect really.

to kate - I know, people are always saying to be green, and save the earth and animals, yet we're turning every piece of free land we can find into anything that may be benefitting for us yet not the earth. Though farmers depend on how much land they need, because prices are rising and money is more important now, and they need more and more land in order to plant more corps. in the end the problem always seems to be money really.
i like how you mentioned something you knew alot about like the amazon rain forest. its good to connect things.