1st DRAFT Disconnection From Food to Its Eater

Jesse Russell 3/30/2007
Food Argon
Industrial Food Paper


Where did you last meal come from? What was is made out of? Chances are you are like most Americans, who have no idea, today Americas food corporations are extremely industrialized. It is difficult for one to understand where their meals come from unless they are locally grown nearby or on your own. Fast food is the main contributor to this problem as well as mass produced foods. Presently there is a big dissconnection between the food and its eaters.
The IFS (Industrial Food System), today has surrounded the world mainly in the United States, McDonalds alone operates over 31,000 restaraunts worldwide. Fast food and mass produced food are two parts of the IFS, they work by the art of persuasiveness and convenience. There are examples of industrial food everywhere, in the super market, in your fridge, and anywhere you go on the road or by foot. The McDonalds website even has what is called a “McDonalds Trip Planner”, type in your starting street address and your destination and they will give you a map of every McDonalds on your route. Seeing the IFS in some way shape or form is impossible living in our industrialized world of today.


It's based on making as much money as possible and not considering the consequences of how these monopolies are getting there. Meat-Packing factories have the conveyor belt moving at a top speed, where it is almost impossible for a worker to do a good job and cleaning, cutting and organizing the meat. Often Big corporations, factories and companies are involved in the all the reasons we don't know where the food on our plates comes from. My experience with industrial food has been constant my whole life. Living in The United States and especially in Manhattan, I have grown up in an industrialized world, full of industrial things including foods.

Organic Goat Cheese/ Farmer's Market

-Organic Goat Cheese

-Goat cheese is more easily digestiable compared to cheese made from cows milk

- LYNN HAVEN
GOAT MILK CHEESE
414 Chruch Rd. PIne Bush, NY 12566
Contact Lynn Fleming

-HOW To make it
Pasteurizing:

Filter the goat's milk and heat it to 162° F.
Remove from burner and cool to 100°F.
Goats Cheese Process:

Dissolve 1/2 of a rennet tablet in 1/8 cup of water, (rennet tabs can be found in the pudding/Jello section of your grocery store).
Pour the rennet water, plus a quart of goats milk, in a yogurt maker, or thick pottery jug or thermos, along with a teaspoon of plain yogurt. (I've added some eBay auctions of yogurt makers for you at the bottom of this page. That way you get to see what they look like and get the best deal if you're interested in buying one.)
Incubating the Goat Cheese

Incubate the mixture (let it sit in a warm spot - 90° F) for 2-3 hours until the mixture resembles curds and whey (looks like thick globs of yogurt in a milky soup).

Filtration of the Cheese Curds

Pour the mixture into supported coffee filters (you might have to fashion a contraption that allows the liquid to filter out and away from the cheese).

Give this dripping filter process approximately 5-8 hours to complete the filtration task in the refrigerator.

What's left in the filters is goat cheese.

-www.farmandfood.org

www.coonridge.com

http://www.frenchentree.com/france-food-cuisine/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=2598

Team Links

CORN- http://citycorn.blogspot.com/

http://www.farm-garden.com/growing-vegetables/sweetcorn

WHEAT-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_wheat

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/PUBS/crops/00544.html

What's In My Fridge

Freezer
-3 Organic PIzza Bites
-2Spinach/cheese munchies
-4 Macaroni and cheese lean cuisines
-2 Fettucini Alfredo Helathy Choices
-Sugar Free Edy's ice cream
-sugar free fudge pops
-2 sliced of old pizza
-ground coffee
-Pie Crust

Fridge
-American Cheese
-Fat free/sugar chocolate pudding
-Fat/free sugar free rice pudding
-hebrew national hotdogs
-muenster cheese
-virgnia ham
-eggs
-butter
-milk
-welches white grape juice
-crystal light ice tea
-capri suns box
-grapes
-2 grapefruit

Civilization and Feed Comparison

Jesse Russell 1/26/1007
B History

“Feed” in Comparison to Civilization Course

Feed By M.T. Anderson

This last semester in my civilization course we have learned about the ups and downs of our civilization, including how the world we live in constantly bombards us with advertisements and media, and how we actually have no perception of reality. In “Feed” by M.T. Anderson, based on our oncoming future, all humans have a chip implanted inside their brain known as a “feed”. The feed works as almost anything, a chat system, a television, a way to listen to music, and a way to receive information, such as advertisements. People are constantly being bombarded with ads in their feeds and into their brains. M.T. Anderson’s prediction of the future isn’t far off from our present.

Titus, a teenager and main character of the story “Feed”, travels to the moon with some friends, once there he meets a girl named Violet, suddenly everyone’s feeds get hacked and shut down. This is when Violet, Titus and his friends become good friends, and in the case of Violet and Titus, more than friends. Violet realizes how corrupt the feed is, and how everyone is practically being brainwashed, they no longer have to think for themselves. The feed includes a dictionary, calculator, internet, it practically has access to anything you need, you no longer have to find out where to stay on the moon. As soon as you arrive you are thrown hundreds of advertisements for hotels on the moon. Violet decides to fight the feed and the phenomenon of it that has taken over the World.

Today it is a statistic that the average person living in New York sees approximately 5,000 advertisements a day. If we lived today with feeds in our brains we would probably be getting an advertisement shown to us every second, even if we chose to ignore it, we would see it. The media is something that is constantly surrounding us and in this future world presented by Anderson it is even more so. Everything that we live in today isn’t necessarily reality, television is a picture of something that we don’t really see, radio is something that we don’t really hear, instant messaging isn’t actually talking. This way of living now isn’t far off from the “feed”, it’s almost the same just not quite implanted in our brains. The “feed” takes all this to a brand new and higher level, there is no longer any need for using your voice, you can talk to anyone instantly using the feed and so much more. There is hardly any use for having a brain.

There is a clear comparison between our “reality” on earth and the earth that Anderson portrays in his book. Hopefully we will be able to realize to use our brains more, before it gets to the stage of the “feed”.