our food is handled and processed by somebody else. Well‚ the truth is that Americans don’t have the time to farm and basically‚ get their hands dirty. On that note‚ I do believe that it’s necessary to have other people handle the food we eat. For two reasons I believe this‚ one‚ the people who process the food need the job and the money that comes with it‚ and two‚ most Americans don’t even want to know about the food they buy. Although Americans don’t want to know about where our food came
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Food Inc Extra Credit Food Inc is a documentary about the state of the food industry within the United States. It was a very in depth look at the farming industry that most people don’t get a chance to see. Most people don’t really think about where the food comes from or how it was farmed. This documentary gave a clear insight into how our food is really produced. When you think of farming‚ you may think of an area of land which is devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food
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Food Inc. The movie‚ Food Inc.‚ again‚ I was not surprised by most of the information that was presented. Most of our food is pumped with antibiotics causing naturally bacteria to become resistant or has been genetically modified by major corporations. It was constantly preached at my undergraduate college to be “green” in all aspects of life‚ buy local‚ eat organic‚ recycle and so on. So‚ it was this was not a shock. While‚ I was watching the Food Inc.‚ I did find it interesting the interaction
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study of causes and effects‚ or both causes and effects is causal analysis. For your final essay‚ conduct a causal analysis of Food Inc. Begin with the questions: What are the causes and effects of the current modes of food production and consumption? How are workers affected? Consumers? Think of the cause and effect relationships of between the sources of our food and health‚ economics‚ and politics. As you put your paragraphs together‚ try to develop causal chains (think of the Direct TV ad
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Organic Farming or Factory Farming? In the documentary‚ Food Inc.‚ director Robert Kenner reveals the truth of factory farming and organic farming. In the film‚ he interviews an organic farmer‚ Joel Salatin‚ who owns Poly Face Farm‚ in Swoope‚ Virginia. Salatin believes that animals should be fed with grass instead of corn. Corn is a natural resource that both the factory farm and organic farm uses. Factory farming use corn because it is cheap‚ easy to grow‚ and makes the animals fat very fast
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As meat products become increasingly available to the American general public‚ many people are questioning if it’s ethical to harvest animals for meat consumption. For a long time‚ this has been a debatable topic. Many animal advocates claim that mass production of meat has become a cruel practice to slaughter many domesticated animals under harsh conditions. As a result‚ people on the right side of the spectrum promote vegetarianism as a way to protect livestock from being mass slaughtered. Even
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Basic Rules of Trusts: Property‚ Obligations and trusts 1) Equitable title exists whenever equity will require the legal owner of property to hold the property for the benefit of some other person or group of persons (which group may include the legal owner himself.) 2) Cestuis que trust=beneficiaries 3) Settlor and trustee can be the same person. 4) Settlor and beneficiary can be the same person. (Settlor can convey property to a trustee on trust for himself.) 5) Express trust as the creation
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Chapter I: Fast Food to all Food 1. If animals should have certain rights‚ do you think those rights also apply to animals we raise for food‚ like chicken and pigs? Are there any rights that these farm animals should have? If so‚ what are they? * Yes‚ I believe that those rights should apply to animals raised for food‚ as well. I’m not saying that we should stop killing them altogether because‚ however cruel it may sound‚ we still need food and meat is food. Yes‚ the farm animals should have
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Hop-In Food Stores Inc. Hop-In Foods Stores has historically been able to rely on internal financing and long term debt in order to continue its growth. The continued growth is attributed to acquisitions of already established stores. Hop-In management has predominantly stayed away from starting up new stores from scratch due to high start up costs. They had found out that it was easier and more cost effective to buy up smaller stores in good locations. As of 1976 all of Hop-In’s expansion was
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This report is taking a deeper look at Eco-Products‚ Inc. past financial performance and projecting the future. The company was founded by Kent and Steve Savage in 1990 in Boulder‚ Colorado. The company is a lead supplier of environmentally friendly food service products in the United States. The margins were low and the salaries were small. The company was financed by family and friends up to 2005‚ when they received their first line of credit from the bank at $30‚000. This line of credit reached
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